Creating a Deskband Help!

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After reading a lot of Tutorials from MSDN (as a hobby)[^]

I have understood that in order to begin with the creation I need to do some sort of registration.

After reading the section of the above link, I am confused and require help from one who is more knowledgable.

Im attempting to create something which is on the taskbar eg. iTunes Toolbar Deskband.

This is where I got confused...
"In general, the basic registry entry for a band object will appear as follows.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
CLSID
{Your Band Object's CLSID GUID}
(Default) = Menu Text String
InProcServer32
(Default) = DLL Path Name
ThreadingModel = Apartment"

as well as...

"You can handle registration of a band object's CATID programmatically. Create a component categories manager object (CLSID_StdComponentCategoriesMgr) and request a pointer to its ICatRegister interface. Pass the band object's CLSID and CATID to ICatRegister::RegisterClassImplCategories."
as I do not know wheather I need to do the whole HKEY Root part.

Any Help Much Appreciated.

PS IM USING VS2010

Posted 31-Aug-11 11:22am

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Philippe Mori · Answer 1 · 2011-08-31T16:55:00

It is not easy to explain... and it is a lot of work to do.

My suggestion is try to find samples that already works and start from there. If you can find a project that compile and works, it will be much easier for you.

In the following page you will find a link for DeskBand API SDK Sample:

Windows UI Samples[^]

You can find more samples using Google: deskband sample[^]

For the registry stuff, you can look in the registry and you have a good idea how it is organized as many of those keys are used a lot...