Use Windows 7 taskbar features in VS 2008 with MFC

Question

Hello,

Is it possible to use the new taskbar Windows 7 features in Visual Studio 2008, with MFC? I know it is possible in VS 2010 and in VS2008 using WTL, But what about in VS 2008, is it possible to update MFC to v10?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can't easily copy 2010's MFC to 2008 but you sure can check the sources and crate your own classes that work under 2008.

Answer 2

You don't need to update MFC to the new version. Look into the ITaskbarList3 COM interface; by catching a "TaskbarButtonCreated" registered window message, you can get the HWND of the taskbar button and create an instance of ITaskbarList3 to manipulate it with.

Sorry I don't have any good links on it handy, but that should be enough to get you started on Google (that's how we found it in the first place).