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I FINALLY managed to finish the series on all the COOL stuff in the new Windows 7 taskbar! Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar - ThumbnailToolbarButton Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 1) Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2) Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1) Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2) If you want to see a “real” application...
One of the cool new features of the Windows 7 taskbar is that all running applications gives you this nice feedback that its running using the color hot-track “feature” “Color hot-track is a small touch that typifies the new taskbar’s personality. When a person moves her mouse over a running program on the taskbar, she will be pleasantly surprised to find that a light source tracks her mouse and the color of the light is actually based on the icon itself. We calculate the most dominant RGB of the...
SyntaxHighlighter.all() 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...
SyntaxHighlighter.all() With Windows 7’s public release less than 2 weeks away (22 October 2009) I decided to dig into how the taskbar works! I will specifically be looking at it from a developers point of view! Before we start, download the Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of Windows operating...
Windows 7 has so many cool new features… One of the features that has great potential is the Jump Lists! This article shows how to launch different views for the same application using the Jump List feature of Windows 7 The basics We will be using the default WPF MVVM application created using the MVVM Toolkit . There is only 2 changes I made before we can start: I added a new View/ViewMode called CoolView/CoolViewModel (This is exactly the same code as the MainView/MainViewModel generated). To differentiate...