Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes -- Part IV: Preview and Peek

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This is the fourth, and last, part of my ScreenCast series on implementing the Windows 7 Taskbar features in less than 10 minutes (well, I ran little over this time , sorry). The short video shows how to leverage the Windows 7 Taskbar Preview and Window Peek for your application.

Part IV -- Preview and Window Peek:  
In the last part of the screencast series I show you how to develop an application that

1. Allows you to show a clipped Taskbar Preview of your application, on a defined location of your application window.
2. Dynamically changes the size of the preview image in the Taskbar.
3. Change the preview image to show a custom Icon instead.
4. Show a custom Window Peek Bitmap of your application when hovering with the mouse over the Taskbar Preview.

The source code is available here.
You can download the managed wrappers for the Windows 7 API from the Vista Bridge web page.

Part III -- JumpList:
In this part I show you how to develop an application that

1. Creates a custom category for the Jumplist.
2. Allows you to add Items to the custom Jumplist category (in this case text files, opened in Notepad when selected).
3. Add user tasks to the Jumplist such as opening the calculator or notepad when selected.
4. Add a separator to the Jumplist to group items.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-III-Jumplists/ . The source code is available here.

Part II -- Icon Overlay:
In this part I show you how to implement custom Icon Overlays in the taskbar indicating the happiness (happy/unhappy) of your application. In your applications you can use this to

1. Can indicate the status of your application or provide other useful information (such as online/offline, sign in status, status of your application).
2. Dynamically change the icon.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-II-Icon-Overlay/The source code is available here.

Part I -- ProgressBar and Status:
In the first part of my screencast series I develop an application that allows to

1. Show the progress of the applications work in the taskbar.
2. Indicate the status (Paused, Normal, No determinate, Error).
3. Dynamically change the status based on events.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-I-Progress-Bar/ . The source code is available here .

The Windows API Code Pack can be downloaded here.

I hope you found the series of Screencasts useful and to the point .

Also, check out my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/glenz .