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Hello Community,

Introduction
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Do you always wanted to make something like this:





Well I wanted to do it aswell and after some research I found the solution and I am going to share it with you!


Preperation
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We need these 2 .dll files, download them and a reference to your project!

Then Import the TaskBar and the Shell Class. I have imported the Reflection and IO Class aswell, because we need them.

Code

Imports Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Taskbar
Imports Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.IO

JumpList
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The JumpList is basically the ContextMenu of the TaskBar, but with less features. It is still available, when the application is not ran.

So in this sample we will create a Link to a new Application Instance.

Code

Private Sub Form1_Shown(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Shown
        Dim jplst As JumpList = JumpList.CreateJumpList()
        jplst.ClearAllUserTasks()

        Dim TaskLink As JumpListLink = New JumpListLink(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location, "Create new Instance")
        TaskLink.IconReference = New IconReference(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location, 0)

        jplst.AddUserTasks(TaskLink)

How it will look:



You can create as many of this items as you want.



You can also add a Seperator for a better overview:

Code

Dim sep As JumpListTask = New JumpListSeparator()
        jplst.AddUserTasks(sep)

As you might notice all these items will be put under the "Aufgaben" or "Tasks", if you want to give that a costum name you need to create a new JumpListCustomCategory.

Code

Dim category As JumpListCustomCategory = New JumpListCustomCategory("System Utilities")

        Dim calculator As JumpListLink = New JumpListLink(Path.Combine(Environment.SystemDirectory, "calc.exe"), "Calculator")
        calculator.IconReference = New IconReference(Path.Combine(Environment.SystemDirectory, "calc.exe"), 0)

        category.AddJumpListItems(calculator)

        jplst.AddCustomCategories(category)
        jplst.Refresh()

Thumbnail Buttons
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With Thumbnail Buttons those little buttons at the bottom are meant.



You can only add 7 Buttons, but that should be enough though.

Code

Dim button As ThumbnailToolBarButton = New ThumbnailToolBarButton(New Icon("skype.ico", 16, 16), "Open Skype")
        TaskbarManager.Instance.ThumbnailToolBars.AddButtons(Me.Handle, button)
        AddHandler button.Click, AddressOf button_click

Code

Sub button_click()
        'Any Code Here
    End Sub

Thumbnail Clip
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You can change the region that will be shown as Thumbnail with this easy code:

Code

TaskbarManager.Instance.TabbedThumbnail.SetThumbnailClip(Me.Handle, New Rectangle(0, 0, 50, 50))

NOTE: Since it needs the handle you can perfom this with any external application aswell.


Taskbar Progress
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Well you can also make the litte rectangle in your Taskbar act like a progressbar. This is easy aswell:

Code

Dim tbm As TaskbarManager = TaskbarManager.Instance
        tbm.SetProgressValue(50, 100, Me.Handle)
        tbm.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal)

It has different states to either make the progressbar color green, red or yellow, depending on abortion, pause etc.




Taskbar Overlay Icon
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In my eyes this is completely useless, but check it out yourself.

What it does:

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Code for this:

Code

tbm.SetOverlayIcon(New Icon("C:\Users\Paul\Pictures\Germany.ico"), "")

I hope this Tutorial helped some people and please leave a post, it took me much time to find out how this works and then compile the Thread!

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I always wanted to know how skype did all of there cool taskbar features, well now i know thanks man HQ thread!

[๖ۣۜXilluX]

Your copying skills for the progress bar are remarkable https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4271143 but other than that the overlay icon part was very useful.

Sorry for this I haven't looked through the Threads, if there is already the same or a similar one.

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i try it b4 but with no luck i have win7 64
maybe http://originaldll.com/file/microsoft.wi...29294.html
"If you use a 64-bit version of Windows, you should also copy microsoft.windowsapicodepack.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64"
if any1 try it pls post if its work

[๖ۣۜXilluX]

i try it b4 but with no luck i have win7 64
maybe http://originaldll.com/file/microsoft.wi...29294.html
"If you use a 64-bit version of Windows, you should also copy microsoft.windowsapicodepack.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64"
if any1 try it pls post if its work

I have Windows 8.1 64 bit and I do not need to put the file in that folder.