Following is a summary of the session “ Taking Advantage of Pinned Sites with Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7 ” presented by Israel Hilerio, Program Manager in Internet Explorer Team at Microsoft, in PDC 2010. This talk shows how you can add integration of your site into the Windows 7 taskbar. Pinned Sites Goals for having pinned sites in Internet Explorer 9: Closer relationship between users and their favorite sites Allow web sites to promote their brand outside of the browser Seamless integration...
Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack . The code in this post is based on previous work by Yochay and Sasha . Features Setting the process Application ID TaskbarManager.Instance.ApplicationId = "TaskbarManaged" ; Note: This should be done before the window is shown, a good place is on form load. Setting the Application ID of a window TaskbarManager.Instance.SetApplicationIdForSpecificWindow(form.Handle...