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A toolbar embedded into the taskbar. Windows offers several such toolbars by default ("Address", "Links" and "Desktop") and users can add new components to customize their taskbar.

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How to set Initial DeskBand Width?

I have a deskband based on the MS sample. It shows as an item via right click taskbar, toolbars. I find that when initially opened it's using the DBIM_MINSIZE instead of the DBIM_ACTUAL size. Why is that? What is the appropriate way to set the…
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Deskband in Windows 7 x64 C#?

I want to create a deskband app, like BatteryBar, in C#. I understand that the deskband might not work in future versions of windows, that you shouldn't code explorer extensions in managed code, and whatnot. My question is, what is the current…
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How to make DeskBands work on Windows 7 x64?

I'm going to create an application (C#), which has its DeskBand on the Windows TaskBar. I've found one complete example program, which does this, but I didn't manage to successfully install (add to Toolbars menu on the taskbar) it. I think, it's…
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Deskband for Windows 7

I have created a deskband for Windows XP after following the tutorial in codeproject. It works perfect. However, some of the users use Windows 7 and they found they cannot use the deskband I created. Could anyone let me know how to fix the…
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IDeskBand2 implementation crashes

I have created a sample template for a future project that implements IDeskBand2. The registration with gacuti and regasm works, it is also displayed in the toolbar. If I want to display / execute it, the explorer crashes. For the creation I used…
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Enable Deskband programmatically

We have developed a custom Deskband by implementing the IDeskBand interface. As a part of the deployment strategy we would like to enable the Deskband automatically. Can anyone provide guidance on how this could be achieved, either programmatically…
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Taskbar Toolbar (DeskBand) in VB.NET for Win7 x64

I want create a DeskBand application for Windows 7 64bit in VB2013. I found two helpful sites: Band Object Basics Extending Explorer with Band Objects Using .NET My problem is, if I want activate my toolbar, drop the popup window that say this:…
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DeskBand with WPF

It's been a few years after the last question here about DeskBands. So... I've found this DeskBand called My Dell, all the current bloatware software from Dell is probably made with WPF. Here is the DeskBand: Is it possible to use WPF to make that?…
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Adding my own interface to a deskband

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 SP1 x64. I need to make a custom deskband that communicates with a win32 application, compiled as 32bit app. I used this CodeProject article as a starting point:…
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Making a window transparent to mouse events

Is there any way to make an application window "transparent" for mouse events? I want my form to be visible, but it covers some elements that must be clicked. I was thinking about DeskBand, but I was told it was going to be rather difficult... Any…
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