Silverlight MVP John Stockton of Ascentium appears on the show to explain how to create a custom pre-loader (sometimes called a splash screen) for Silverlight applications. He demonstrates how to create a custom preloading animation and progress indicator while a Silverlight application loads. He also discusses what you can and cannot do when creating a pre-loader since the pre-loader runs using script and XAML prior to the Silverlight application being fully loaded. Lots of code in this episode! You can download the source code for the demo from this episode by clicking on this link. John Stockton has more links on his post here. Follow @SilverlightTV on Twitter for the latest updates....