Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays - Rudi Grobler
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:20 PM rudi

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays

As you would expect from Microsoft, Office integrates very nicely with Windows 7 taskbar! Have a look at the following 2 taskbar icons:

And if I have unread mail

These “visual clues” makes status changes look natural! And the best of all? It’s sooooo easy to do!

TaskbarManager.Instance.SetOverlayIcon(this.Handle, TaskbarDemo.Properties.Resources.IveGotMail, "IveGotMail");

and to remove the visual clues

TaskbarManager.Instance.SetOverlayIcon(this.Handle, null, null);

Easy? Isn’t it… To make your application play nice with Windows 7 isn’t very difficult!!!

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# Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar - Overlays

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# re: Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:04 PM by Eduardo

How do you enable this overlay in Outlook?

# re: Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:38 PM by Eduardo

Is this Outlook 2007 or 2010?

# re: Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:34 AM by pieterg

Baie awesome Rudi!

Dit lyk fantasties!

# Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:17 AM by Rudi Grobler

One of the cool new features of the Windows 7 taskbar is that all running applications gives you this

# re: Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:31 AM by rudi

Eduardo - It's Office 2010... but other MS products also does this... check out messenger?

pieterg - Dankie pieter!

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