Windows 7 Desktop Managed Resources

Posted By: KevinB | Feb 16th @ 4:04 PM
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#Feb 16th @ 4:04 PM
KevinB
KevinB
Hey,

Thought some of you may be interested in this. It is managed wrappers aounrd all the native desktop and superbar API's that are new to Windows 7. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet as I don't have a Win7 install on this machine, but looking through the source it looks pretty complete.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7Taskbar

and in particular :

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7Taskbar/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2246

It is a superset of the code that was used in the Windows 7 Desktop demo given at the PDC by Rob Jarrett. If you want to watch that talk, which was very good, it is referenced from the above pages also and I have included the link below.

PDC08: Windows 7: Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop

Kevin
#Feb 16th @ 9:01 PM
CreamFilling512
CreamFilling512
Yeah it's a shame .NET and Windows aren't aligned at all.
#Feb 16th @ 9:23 PM
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They never have been; why should they start now?
#Feb 17th @ 12:48 PM
KevinB
KevinB
If you watch the video that I called out in the original post, it seems that the Windows team have realised that the complete divorce from .NET that that they did in Vista hasn't worked and they seem to be making moves to correct it this time around. Especially towards the end of the video, there are references made to extensions that are coming in .NET 4.0 that will allow managed developers to target the new shell features right out the gate. Not complete alignment I know, but a lot better than Vista Smiley

Kevin
#Mar 12th @ 11:09 AM
jMarshall
jMarshall
Rob Jarrett on that presentation imported to the project only one file. According to him it was very raw wrapper. Can you give me the link please? I know there are advanced wrappers, but I really want to see that file. Help me!
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