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[C#] Create a toolbar app?


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I don't know quite how to explain this...

I want to write an app that consists basically of a single text box. Easy peasy. However, I want this to be a (dunno?) widget or something? I want it to live in the taskbar - like how you can put an address field there.

Sure, if I used the sidebar that would be easy - but I don't.

Is such a thing possible?

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Cheers :) The hardest part was trying to put into words what I wanted to do - and so searching was fruitless :)

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The code there is either incomplete or full of errors.

But thanks for pointing me in the direction :)

Did you read the instructions under the download links, as I seem to have it working... at least it appears to be.

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As I understand it, it is inadvisable to create shell extensions in .NET, as loading it will lock out any attempts to run code from another version of the CLR in process.

This might not be an issue right now, as everything tends to use 2.0, but when the next version comes out...

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Yeah, Deskbands are fun, I wrote one in VB6 ages ago, man it was ugly.

And you can have some issues with versoning, new things use .NET 3.5, but another deskband may explicitly want 2.0 or such, but I don't think you can host multiple versions of the CLR in an unmanaged app.

Edit: .NET shell extensions in general are fun, I wrote a thumbnail previewer in .NET once, as well as a explorer bar.

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Yeah, Deskbands are fun, I wrote one in VB6 ages ago, man it was ugly.

And you can have some issues with versoning, new things use .NET 3.5, but another deskband may explicitly want 2.0 or such, but I don't think you can host multiple versions of the CLR in an unmanaged app.

Everything since 2.0 uses the 2.0 CLR.

When 4.0 comes out, it won't.

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