Windows 7 Taskbar APIs in the MSDN Magazine

Yochay and I wrote an article on the Windows 7 Taskbar APIs for the July 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine. It pretty much covers what I already posted on this blog (see the Windows 7 tag), and what Yochay has been posting on the Windows 7 Blog for Developers for a couple of weeks now.

It was a great opportunity to repeat the awesome screenshot of Windows 1.0 and how similar its taskbar is to Windows 7’s :-)

Nonetheless, you might find it useful because it organizes the information into a digestible form, with native and managed APIs (using the Windows API Code Pack, of course) shown side by side. Some topics aren’t covered – e.g. you won’t find any information on window switchers in this article – but there’s only so much we could squeeze in a single piece.