Taskbar Controls

27 Nov 2007 10:33 AM

NickP

Hi there,

I'm interested in making an application appear in the taskbar in a similar
way to how Windows Media Player appears, in it's own custom taskbar group,
where you can manipulate the program directly on the taskbar.

Has anyone got any advice on how to do this? I've just been hunting around
on google but not found anything other than simply hiding/showing the icon.

TIA!

Nick.

27 Nov 2007 8:18 PM

Mattias Sjögren

>Has anyone got any advice on how to do this?

Those things are called "desk bands". If you google that you'll get
plenty of hits. The MSDN docs are at

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776819.aspx

Note however that they should be implemented in a language like C++,
not VB.NET or other managed language.

Mattias

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27 Nov 2007 10:53 PM

NickP

Hey Mattias,

Many thanks for your help that's great :-)

Nick.

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>>Has anyone got any advice on how to do this?
>
> Those things are called "desk bands". If you google that you'll get
> plenty of hits. The MSDN docs are at
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776819.aspx
>
> Note however that they should be implemented in a language like C++,
> not VB.NET or other managed language.
>
>
> Mattias
>
> --
> Mattias Sjögren [C# MVP] mattias @ mvps.org
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> Please reply only to the newsgroup.