.Net app to drag tasks in the taskbar - how to get started?
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Hey kids, I've always been annoyed that Windows won't let you drag the tasks around on the taskbar so I thought I might try to write a small app or service in .Net to do this. I've written plenty of .Net web pages and Winforms apps but to be honest with something like this I'm not that sure how or where to start - for example, I assume I'd have to use the native windows classes but that's about as far as I know. Can the taskbar be accessed from v2 of the framework easily? Is it easy to implement drag and drop when it's outside of a form (ie: on the desktop window)? I'm sure this must be possible to do but I just need a kick-start from a few folks more knowledageable in these sort of things than I am. Alternatively, if asyone knows of a good app or utility to do this I'd love to hear about it. TIA for any suggestions etc. Mike
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Hey kids, I've always been annoyed that Windows won't let you drag the tasks around on the taskbar so I thought I might try to write a small app or service in .Net to do this. I've written plenty of .Net web pages and Winforms apps but to be honest with something like this I'm not that sure how or where to start - for example, I assume I'd have to use the native windows classes but that's about as far as I know. Can the taskbar be accessed from v2 of the framework easily? Is it easy to implement drag and drop when it's outside of a form (ie: on the desktop window)? I'm sure this must be possible to do but I just need a kick-start from a few folks more knowledageable in these sort of things than I am. Alternatively, if asyone knows of a good app or utility to do this I'd love to hear about it. TIA for any suggestions etc. Mike
Since Windows does not allow you to drag-drop items in the Taskbar (which annoys me too), I assume that there is no API which will allow you to do it. If the API existed, then Windows would have the feature in the first place. (I could be wrong about this.) :josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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Hey kids, I've always been annoyed that Windows won't let you drag the tasks around on the taskbar so I thought I might try to write a small app or service in .Net to do this. I've written plenty of .Net web pages and Winforms apps but to be honest with something like this I'm not that sure how or where to start - for example, I assume I'd have to use the native windows classes but that's about as far as I know. Can the taskbar be accessed from v2 of the framework easily? Is it easy to implement drag and drop when it's outside of a form (ie: on the desktop window)? I'm sure this must be possible to do but I just need a kick-start from a few folks more knowledageable in these sort of things than I am. Alternatively, if asyone knows of a good app or utility to do this I'd love to hear about it. TIA for any suggestions etc. Mike
I think Josh is right. I haven't seen any support in the Shell API to support Drag and Drop in the TaskBar. Of course, this may change in Vista... Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic