Creating Toolbar In Windows Taskbar
Sep 25, 2007
I'm writing an application that I want to keep status text always on the taskbar. Some programs like Windows Media player create a toolbar that can be added to the taskbar. Is there a way to do this in VB.NET, and if so how ... ?
I can create a notifyicon, and although it can be used to display notifications I need the text information to always be displayed... I could have used different icons to show a change in status in the notifytray but I really need text to display the status.
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Dec 19, 2009
I have searched and searched how to do this but everything leads back to Appbars (dockable forms) which is not what i need.
I want a toolbar that goes into the taskbar, like WMP, itunes, language toolbar.
Preferably in vbnet, but if its in C# then thats fine.
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Mar 10, 2012
When right-click the Taskbar -- Toolbars, then click the Desktop, the taskbar will show the Desktop toolbar.
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Nov 6, 2011
I'm wondering how I would go about creating a program that once installed was a windows toolbar. What I'm trying to do is similar to the clipboard, but I want to customize it to my own style. I work in a data entry job and many of the bills we enter have similar information that I'd like to be able to enter without repeated typing. I'd like the toolbar to be docked to the top of the screen, and have several buttons on it. Clicking a button, while having a focus in my data entry program, would paste the button's text (or the full text of what the button caption represented) into the selected field. Alternately, if focus between multiple applications is too difficult to try, then clicking the button would highlight the text and copy it to the windows clipboard, so I could then click back into my data entry program and hit ctrl-v. I dont need help on the program itself...just on how to make it as a windows toolbar, if possible.
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Feb 18, 2011
I'm looking into figuring out how to add a deskband as a toolbar to my taskbar, very similar to the google desktop search toolbar. All it needs to have is a search textbox, a button, and some way to display results.
I want to add it to an existing application, so that when the application is minimized it'll turn into a toolbar so that certain program functions will be available all the time.This means that I have a few things to figure out:We mostly have windows xp machines, but we hope to upgrade to windows 7 over the next year. In light of this, should I keep researching deskbands, or should I try to figure out thumbnail toolbars? I've seen a link to [URL].. as one way to do it in C#, which I might be able to translate to VB.Net. I also found [URL].. which kind of tells how to do things. Is there a better way to accomplish this?Should I just skip all of this and have a small windows form that opens up from an icon in the system tray?
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Mar 11, 2009
I couldn't find any taskbar button in the toolbar.Usually, when i minimize a button, it will be minimized to the toolbar and once you click the taskbar button, it can be enlarged.however, i couldn't find any taskbar button.Please could you raise some suggestions?any way of resolution without coding?
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Sep 15, 2010
I have been perusing the internet in search of the best way to accomplish this, but have had no luck. If someone here has experience with Office add-ins, I'm not asking for a solution by any means, just assistance with which direction to take. The software I'm working on is primarily in VB.Net and C#; IDE is VS2008 Here's my scenario:
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Sep 15, 2008
I'm creating a program in VS2005 VB.Net somehow like a windows explorer, my problem was on creating a navigation toolbar in my form.
Does anyone know what is the code for back,forward,up one level in navigation toolbar??
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Oct 31, 2009
I have been learning VB2008 and have been working a little with the toolstrip. While this question isn't really urgent, I've been thinking down the road about images and image libraries that I would like to build and use in my programs. I am thinking I should set up my own library so that all programs I write will have the same look (at least as often as I want them to).
1) What does everyone use to create images? What programs, features, etc. are important? Eg. I have MSPaint and and old version of CorelDraw but have never really used them to high quality stuff.
2) Are people just using the images provided in VB2008 Pro?
3) What should I consider when working with images for use in Windows Forms programming? Currently I am not doing any web work.
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Jun 13, 2010
I have searched high and low but cannot find any info on how to add a textbox into the Windows taskbar - like the Windows Search does? I want to make my own search tool and have a textbox show up there in the Windows taskbar just like the windows search does. Has anyone got or sample code to do this?
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Jul 19, 2010
Like disable taskbar and some windows 7 api calls. Any cool windows api calls?
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Aug 15, 2011
I want to create an application which provides toolbar 'button' like BatteryBar.
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Sep 18, 2009
Is there any way to access the built in toolbar pictures that Microsoft has so kindly developed. I want to use them in my toolbar but when you go to change the image setting of a toolstripbutton your only choice is the local resource file.
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Dec 2, 2011
I am creating a toolbar for the desktop. The only problem I have is that all though I have the windows above all others windows I need to have the other programs (not created by me) to snap or max to below my program etc. I have tried to search but have not found anything to help me or explain how to do it..
I am using Visual Studio 2010 Ultmate (visual basic 2010)..
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Feb 14, 2010
i want to design a new program that should start with windows and its icon should appear at the toolbar the idea is when i click on the icon a rectangular forum should appear. my question is that: what is the best tool or control should i use? should i use the blank project of windows application or there is special project for that.
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Sep 23, 2009
[URL] Check out that webpage, how would I do some of those funcitions in Visual Basic? I want the taskbar Progressbar.
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Nov 1, 2009
I'm trying to make a thumbnail toolbar button (TTB from now on)visible when the it is clicked. I know how to do stuff when it is clicked, AddHandler etc. But if I tell it TTB.visible=false then it doesn't become invisible. If I put TTB.enabled = False it will be disabled, so it's only the visible that isn't working.
Also I put a button on my form (not a TTB) and when that is click wrote, TTB.visible = false and that didn't work, so there is no way to make it invisible.
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Mar 5, 2010
I'm getting started with VB 2008 and was wondering which control I can use to create a Toolbar within a windows form title bar, as MS Word 2007 does?
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Feb 18, 2009
I have a program that has a main window, and a progression of other windows that all open from each other. I only want the main window to show in the taskbar, and I want to be able to minimize at any window, and have every window minimize to a single item in the taskbarThe problem is: when I set each form's 'SHOWINTASKBAR' to True, every form shows in the taskbar instead of just one. If I set the 'SHOWINTASKBAR' property to False, they don't minimize to the taskbar.
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Jan 28, 2012
I am making a Kiosk system and would like to recreate the Windows Taskbar in VB.NET, specifically the window management features of the taskbar: displaying open windows, switching between windows, and highlighting which window has focus. if the taskbar had the same positioning properties as the Windows Taskbar, in that even when other windows had focus the taskbar would still have focus and would not taking focus away from windows on the screen, and maximized windows would not maximize over the taskbar.
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May 4, 2010
Windows 7 has a new feature which shows ProgressBar in TaskBar.There's a Windows API released by Microsoft which is a wrapper for .NET applications that allows .NET developers use these functions in their apps.I am not going to use it and just wanna know if there is any new functions in .NET Framework 4.0 RTM which allows us to use such functions naively in .NET?
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Nov 27, 2010
i have windowsdeskopintegration.dll and i want codes for progressbar, jumplist, takslist, taskbar buttons but in visual basic forms applications.
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Oct 2, 2009
Any open src code or a freeware app to ungroup some task bar windows? I want to be able to ungroup all windows started by firefox.exe but leave other windows grouped so they are now. I have XP so this is not there in explorer natively.
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Jan 26, 2010
Is it possible to show a different text in the task bar of Windows and the title bar of the application Window?
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Nov 9, 2011
Is it possible to hide windows taskbar by code??
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Aug 21, 2009
I'm working on a project, and wat to integrate a Button to the Windows Taskbar... like Windows Mediaplayer.
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Nov 20, 2009
I saw an application for cashier system in a certain store. I noticed that while the application was running, the window form of their application occupies the entire screen and the windows taskbar seems to be hidden. I'm just curious how did they hide the windows taskbar? Do they hide the taskbar in a manual settings on their computer before the application was launched? If not, how did they make their application capable of hiding the taskbar? Please put a detail code if applicable. I just want to know how to hide the taskbar when you launch the application and put it back when you exits the application as well.
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Aug 2, 2011
I saw an application for cashier system in a certain store. I noticed that while the application was running, the window form of their application occupies the entire screen and the windows taskbar seems to be hidden. I'm just curious how did they hide the windows taskbar? Do they hide the taskbar in a manual settings on their computer before the application was launched? If not, how did they make their application capable of hiding the taskbar? I just want to know how to hide the taskbar when you launch the application and put it back when you exits the application as well.
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Jul 11, 2010
I asked a question earlier asking how to use the Windows 7 taskbar progress bar without the .dll files, but I realized that in VS2010 you can embed a .dll into your application. I set this option to embed to true, but when trying to use the code for said .dll, I get this error: Interop type "Windows7ProgressBar" cannot be embedded. Use the application interface instead.
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Sep 30, 2010
We have an application that self-updates using a Laucher.exe process which copies down new App.exe and DLLs from a server then runs them in a separate process. This was all working very well until the arrival of the Windows 7 taskbar... Problem is in Windows 7, if the user pins the Launcher.exe to the task bar (by right-clicking the shortcut to Launcher.exe) then this happens... When you start the program the "pinned" taskbar icon momentarily gets focus while the launcher is running but then a totally separate new icon appears when App.exe is running. If the user then decides to right click the icon from the running App.exe and pin that to the taskbar, they bypass the application update part of the process.
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