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DBUpdater - Remove an application splash screen showing during the database update

created 13 years ago

This is a console tool and it makes no sense to display a Windows Forms splash screen for it.
This behavior already confused our users in the past:
How to suppress the status window shown by DatabaseUpdater
Q254040
Q437310
Probably some progress information can be shown in the Text mode, but in any case it seems to be unnecessary. Moreover, XPO does not currently provide any progress information when a schema is updated.
See Also:
DBUpdater - Make it possible to provide a notification during the database update
Thanks,
Dennis

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created 12 years ago (modified 12 years ago)

I have implemented this small feature in 12.2. Now no splash screen will be shown by default.
If you want your splash screen back, you can override the WinApplication.RemoveSplash method without calling its base.RemoveSplash() one, i.e. keep the body empty.

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    Nate Laff 12 years ago

      Not a fan of the solution. I display a custom splash screen which shows the user that something is happening, but I run silent to hide the console window. Can you implement a different way please???!!!

      Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress) 12 years ago

        Thank you for the feedback, Nate. I am afraid I will not reconsider the current solution because we received quite many requests for this from other customers in the past. It also seems to be logical not to display anything in the silent mode. If you still need your splash screen in the silent mode, you can override the WinApplication.RemoveSplash method without calling base.RemoveSplash().

        NL NL
        Nate Laff 12 years ago

          As long as there is a way around it, I'm fine :) Thanks!

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