Tag Archives: windows

I Got Code #2: Progress in the Windows 7 taskbar

Have you seen that new progress indicator in Windows 7 taskbar? If you used Windows 7 at least for a day, chances are you did. Did you like? I surely did. It is handy to see the progress of an operation right in the taskbar, without having to switch to a different window. Something that [...]

Weather in the taskbar

I decided to enter the CodeProject “Windows @ Work” article contest. The idea behind it is creating an application that is using some of the new features Windows 7 has introduced. Since I had some experience developing software that is using the new Windows 7 features (the taskbar and associated jumplists, to be specific), I [...]

IconReference – Using own icons

Since the release of Windows 7, lots of .NET developers felt the need to use the new features introduced by the new OS. One of these features is the possibility to have jump lists for the application icon in the system taskbar.    Natively, using the new taskbar capabilities is only possible by using the Win32 [...]