Splash screen thread causing lost focus on main application form

I'm working on a splash screen for our windows application and I've got it just about nailed down but I have 1 small problem that I can't seem to get around.

Here's some background:

The exe fires up and a splash screen is displayed in a seperate thread while all of the application load logic takes place, BEFORE the main application form is displayed and the windows message pump is started. My problem is that the main form does not have focus and lies in the background of whatever window I have open (window explorer, visual studio, etc...) when it loads. I can click on the taskbar to bring it up, but it should be the primary focus after the splash screen loads and goes away.

Setting my MainForm to be TopMost before I call Application.Run solves it, but I don't want my form to be TopMost... just displayed as the active window when the splash screen thread dies, but I can't seem to make it happen. You can ignore the fact that the splash screen shows up and goes away immediately in my example, I have a more detailed splash screen in place with delegates for closing it, but this causes the same effect.

Here's the code:

Code Snippet

/// <summary>

/// The main entry point for the application.

/// </summary>

[STAThread]

static void Main()

{

Application.EnableVisualStyles();

// Display Splash Screen

Thread newThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(StartSplashScreen));

newThread.IsBackground = true;

newThread.Name = "Splash Screen Thread";

newThread.Start();

// TODO: Application Load Logic

// Kill the Splash Screen Thread

newThread.Join();

// Main Application Form

MainForm mainForm = new MainForm();

Application.Run(mainForm);

}

// Entry Method for Splash Screen GUI Thread

public static void StartSplashScreen()

{

SplashForm form = new SplashForm();

form.Name = "Splash Screen";

form.Show();

}

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
Josh

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