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Windows 7 Taskbar Samples
Taskbar7 provides simple ways to interact with Windows 7 Taskbar on managed (.Net) and unmanaged (C++) worlds.
The releases consists in two projects. A C++/CLI project, with a Win32 and a .Net Wrapper that offers an easy way to access Windows 7 Taskbar features. And a C# Sample project.
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Taskbar7 Status
ALPHA

Features
  1. Supported Windows 7 taskbar features
    1. Progress
      1. C++ Native Class to interact with Windows 7 taskbar (Taskbar7\Unmanaged\Progress7.hpp).
      2. C++/CLI Wrapper of Progress7 class and .Net based object model (Taskbar7\Managed\TaskbarProgress.hpp).
      3. C# Samples
  2. Next features
    1. Jump Lists
    2. Icon Overlay
    3. FlashWindow
  3. C# Samples Application (Taskbar7 Samples project)

Using Taskbar7 Samples

  1. .NET Developers
    1. See the Taskbar7Sample project.
    2. The samples are splitted in UserControls.
    3. Follow the commented steps to interact with Windows 7 taskbar.
  2. C++ Developers
    1. See the Taskbar7 project.
    2. Include the header Unmanaged\Progress7.hpp in your project
    3. The C++ samples will be avaliable soon.
  3. All Developers
    1. Enjoy the samples
    2. Send your feedback
    3. Wait for more features and samples :D

Dependecies
  1. Windows 7 build 7000+ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx
  2. Windows SDK for Windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a91dc12a-fc94-4027-b67e-46bab7c5226c&DisplayLang=en

Warnings
  1. Compile your .Net project for X86 platform to avoid dependency erros... We will work in this issue
  2. The code will be improved with resources, exceptions etc ;)

Blogs
Windows Brazil Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/winbr

Shinji's Personal Blog
http://shinji360.spaces.live.com
Last edited Jan 29 at 10:49 PM  by Shinji, version 24
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