Slides used to accompany my presentation given at DevEvening on developing for Windows7 using the WindowsAPICodePack.

1. Developing for Windows 7 matt lacey @mrlacey - mrlacey.co.uk

4. Will be looking at: Taskbar Overlay Images & Progress Jump Lists Thumbnail Preview Explorer Browser Known Folders & Stock Icons Command Links Application Restore and Recovery

5. Not looking at: Touch Ink Sensors DirectX IE8 Logo testing

9. CODE!

10. Taskbar Overlay Images if (TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported) { TaskbarManager.Instance.SetOverlayIcon( this.Handle, icon, "AltText"); }

11. Taskbar Progress Bar if (TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported) { TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressValue( value, maximum); TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState( TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal); }

12. Taskbar JumpLists if (TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported) { JumpListjumplist = JumpList.CreateJumpList(); jumplist.KnownCategoryToDisplay = JumpListKnownCategoryType.Recent; jumplist.AddToRecent(pathToFileOfRegisteredType); jumplist.AddUserTasks(new JumpListLink(path, "label")); jumplist.Refresh(); }

13. Common Shell Folder Picker CommonOpenFileDialog dialog = newCommonOpenFileDialog { IsFolderPicker = true }; if (dialog.ShowDialog() == CommonFileDialogResult.OK) { explorerBrowser1.Navigate(dialog.FileAsShellObject); }

14. KnownFolders

15. Task Dialog Command Links TaskDialogtaskDlg = newTaskDialog(); TaskDialogCommandLink button = new TaskDialogCommandLink("name", "text"); buttonElevation.Click += newEventHandler(button_Click); taskDlg.Controls.Add(buttonError); taskDlg.Show();

16. ApplicationRestartRecoveryManager // This works in Vista but there was no managed way of doing this before! ApplicationRestartRecoveryManager. RegisterForApplicationRestart( newRestartSettings("restart", RestartRestrictions.None)); This is the simplest way of forcing an app restart when it crashes

18. More information: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com /WindowsAPICodePack http://code.msdn.microsoft.com /Win7DeveloperGuide http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio /buildabetterapp/

19. http://blog.mrlacey.co.uktwitter.com/mrlacey

21. Next time:Christmas CodeFestDecember 3rd