Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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Silverlight 4 has the power to talk with any other application using the COM API. After reading this article, you will be able to pin/unpin any Windows application to your Windows 7 taskbar directly from your Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application.

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Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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Kunal Chowdhury is a former Microsoft "Windows Platform Development" MVP (Most Valuable Professional, 2010 - 2018), a Codeproject Mentor, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Senior Technical Lead by profession.

He is currently working in an MNC located in India. He has a very good skill over XAML, C#, Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows app development. He posts his findings, articles, tutorials in his technical blog (www.kunal-chowdhury.com) and CodeProject.

Books authored:

Mastering Visual Studio 2017 [ISBN 1-78728-190-6]
Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook [ISBN 9-781-78839-980-7]
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