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A given moment my WPF app needs user attention. I know it is possible to make the Windows 7 taskbar icon to flash with a yellow color. I tried so far: Window.Activate Attempts to bring the window to the foreground and activates it. Window.Focus Attempts to set focus to this element. Any suggestions? Here's one possible solution: http://www.jarloo.com/flashing-a-wpf-window/ In the code sample, two extensions methods are created for the Window class: FlashWindow and StopFlashingWindow: private const UInt32 FLASHW_STOP = 0; //Stop flashing. The system restores the window to its original state.

My application launches using an advertised shortcut in the Windows Start Menu. This means the shortcut doesn't link directly to my exe, though the exe is ultimately what runs. My problem is: when I right click the shortcut in the Windows 7 taskbar and select Pin to Taskbar, and then launch my application, I end up with two icons in the taskbar. (So the running app does not re-use the existing taskbar icon.) Does anyone know how to fix this? Unfortunately, the choice of using an advertised rather than a direct shortcut is not up to me. By the way, there is another way to pin a program to the

I have a form I set to Maximized , but for some reason it's ignoring the taskbar and maximizing to the entire screen. Is that typical? Is there a workaround? I'm running Windows XP with a dual monitor setup (taskbar in the first/primary window). If you are using FormBorderStyle.None then it is very simple to make sure it doesn't cover the taskbar when maximized: this.MaximumSize = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Size; It will probably work for other border styles and is probably the cleanest way to ensure your form does not cover the taskbar. One thing I left out of the description--I'd

At the moment I need to detect in C++/Qt if a taskbar, which is set to "autohide" is visible on the screen or not. I have tried already following solution, unfortunately with no success: Checked the autohide state with uState = (UINT) SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE, pabd), this only returns whether autohide property is set or not Getting work area with SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA, 0, &rectWorkArea, 0); Unfortunately the work area is always of size of the entire screen, when taskbar is set to "autohiden", even if it is actually visible on the screen Geting AppBarData with SHAppBarMessage

How do I place my custom toolbar on taskbar in Windows 7 before tasks panel? There is a popular application called Pokki which does it. I wonder how do I do the same? Edit1: I need a 100% way to a custom toolbar (DeskBand?) for Windows 7. I'm not looking for a pin-an application solution, rather a way to build a custom solution capable of processing it's own messages and displaying it's own icons. C# way is greatly appreciated. Edit2: WPF way is greatly appreciated. You'll get plenty of advice to not do this in C#. I cannot recommend otherwise, the odds that your deskband will not work are

I'm having a problem wherein when I pin a taskbar icon in Windows 7 for my application, clicking the icon opens up a separate (duplicate) icon for the program instead of keeping it grouped with the shortcut used to call it. The application itself is a .jar file that's been wrapped into an .exe using Launch4j. That would explain why the icon is getting duplicated -- Launch4j is calling a separate process of javaw.exe, and it looks like the AppModelUserID gets confused when you start doing stuff like that. According to this post , the solution is to specify your AppModelUserID through some

i googled a lot and found out some info about the band object from which we can make the ad-in for the task bar, can i get some more tutorials from scratch & some sample programmes. is there any other alternative way is there to place a control over the windows task bar apart from band objects? Thanks in advance If you want to place a textbox in the taskbar like the Google Desktop search bar, then you're not actually trying to place the control over the taskbar, you want to place it within the taskbar. The proper solution here is a Desk Band . You can find an MSDN article explaining those here