Introduction
Windows 7 provides a new taskbar feature for applications called jumplists. They appear, when you right-click on a application icon in the taskbar. By default you see a list of recent files opened and two entries to launch and detach the application..NET 4.0 provides a managed API that allows you to easily manipulate the entries in the jumplist.
How to add a Task to the Jumplist
A jumplist is nothing more than a categorizes list of links to files that can be launched by the user. The links are calledJumpTasks
. They can be parametrized with a title, description, icon, filepath and command line arguments.In the following sample I create a new
JumpList
and add a task to the list that launches the sample application, but with a command line argument. If the application is launched with an argument, it shows a MessageBox instead.public partial class App : Application { protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e) { if (e.Args.Count() > 0) { MessageBox.Show("You have the latest version."); Shutdown(); } JumpTask task = new JumpTask { Title = "Check for Updates", Arguments = "/update", Description = "Cheks for Software Updates", CustomCategory = "Actions", IconResourcePath = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().CodeBase, ApplicationPath = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().CodeBase }; JumpList jumpList = new JumpList(); jumpList.JumpItems.Add(task); jumpList.ShowFrequentCategory = false; jumpList.ShowRecentCategory = false; JumpList.SetJumpList(Application.Current, jumpList); } }
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