Programing for Windows 7

Windows 7 Taskbar introduces many new feature such as:

Overlay Icons makes your application provide contextual status information to the user even if the application’s window is not shown. The user doesn’t even have to look at the thumbnail or the live preview of your app – the taskbar button itself can reveal whether you have any interesting status updates

Jump List feature is designed to provide you with quick access to the documents and tasks associated with your applications. You can think of Jump Lists like little application-specific Start menus. Jump Lists can be found on the application icons that appear on the Taskbar when an application is running or on the Start menu in the recently opened programs section. Jump Lists can also be found on the icons of applications that have been specifically pinned to the Taskbar or the Start menu.

Taskbar Progress Bar makes your application can provide contextual status information to the user even if the application’s window is not shown. The user doesn’t even have to look at the thumbnail or the live preview of your app.

Thumbnail toolbars are another productivity feature that gives us the ability to do more without actually switching to another application's window. A thumbnail toolbar is essentially a mini remote-control that is displayed when you hover over the application's taskbar button, right beneath the application’s thumbnail.

With these great features that windows 7 offer, we will have to switch our programing skill towards Windows 7 Programing. Stay tuned for tutorials about Windows 7 programing.