How to Creating animated Splash Screen ?

In this article I am going to talk about Splash Screen in Windows Phone 7. Generally when developing a WP7 application you can :

• Use an Image as a Splash Screen
• Use animated Splash Screen
• Use no Splash Screen

By default  when starting a Windows Phone 7 application takes a little time to show the app form. That is why it is a good practice to show your own custom splash screen.

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Use a static Image as Splash Screen
By default when creating a Windows Phone 7 application project it generate a default SplashScreenImage.jpg image:

In order to add a custom splash screen to you WP7 Application the easiest way is just to replace the existing image with a new one. You can just follow the steps:
1). Add an Image file to your project and name it SplashScreenImage.jpg (NOTE: The name is important!)
2). The Image size  have to be width : 480px,  Height 800px : (480 x 800).
3) Set the Image Build Action  to Content

NOTE:  In order to see the splash screen on the emulator your graphics cards need to be WDDM 1.1 or higher.

Read More:http://windowsphonegeek.com/articles/All-about-Splash-Screens-in-WP7-ndash-Creating-animated-Splash-Screen