This demo application is meant as a comprehensive implementation of Taskbar Extensions and all the little nuts, bolts a bit of gaffer tape to make all hang together.

Uses MVVM pattern, so most of the logic is contained in the window model view code behind.

The code is a wee bit messy, as it were done as quick as possible. :)

Tech

• Mahapps.Metro - A toolkit for creating awesome WPF applications. Lots of goodness out-of-the box.
• MahApps.Metro IconPacks - Awesome icon packs for WPF and UWP in one library

Taskbar Demo Application

Taskbar Buttons

Taskbar context menu - Jump lists

• Recent list with support for pinning items
• Tasks items
• Custom icons (As seen on the task list).
• Execution of actions by calling CommandRelay (console) with commands given as args. CommandRelay will send a message (IPC) back to the demo application that will invoke the command.

Taskbar status indicator

• Show an icon overlay on top of the app icon
• Will render the icon from XAML dynamically from code behind

Taskbar progress indicator

Makes it possible to animate the bar below the app icon to give an impression that something is in progress.