C# Showing Buttons on taskbar thumbnails

Question

In WMP, I have been shown buttons on the taskbar thumbnail. How can I make them for my winforms app in C#?

Answer 1

The WindowsAPICodePack contains a control called ThumbnailToolBarButton that you can use to get this functionality going.

You'll need to make sure you have icons for each of the buttons (as I don't believe you can put text on them), and then it should be a simple matter of creating new controls and adding relevant event handlers.

Sourced from here.

Answer 2

XAML

<Window.TaskbarItemInfo>
    <TaskbarItemInfo>
        <TaskbarItemInfo.ThumbButtonInfos>
            <ThumbButtonInfo ImageSource="/IconProgressDemo;component/Icon1.ico" Description="Play!" Click="ThumbButtonInfo_Click" />
            <ThumbButtonInfo ImageSource="/IconProgressDemo;component/Icon2.ico" Description="Stop!" Click="ThumbButtonInfo_Click" />
        </TaskbarItemInfo.ThumbButtonInfos>
    </TaskbarItemInfo>
</Window.TaskbarItemInfo>

C#

private void ThumbButtonInfo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show((sender as System.Windows.Shell.ThumbButtonInfo).Description);
}

I haven't tried this hope this will be helpful.

and refer these links.

http://www.zayko.net/post/Adding-Buttons-to-Window-Thumbnail-in-WPF-4-for-Windows-7-(C).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7trainingcourse_win7taskbarmanaged_topic2.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942846.aspx

and there is Taskbar API available you can try with that.