![]() Is the progress feedback useful and relevant while using other programs? That is, are users likely to monitor the progress while using other programs, and change their behavior as a result? Such useful and relevant status is usually displayed using a modeless progress dialog box or a dedicated progress page, but not with a busy pointer, activity indicator, or progress bar on a status bar. Let me quote the Windows UX guide directly: The flip side is that most of the times you shouldnt use it. Like any new shiny piece of technology everyone wants to add it to their program. Heres our Windows 7 Progress Bar running on Windows 2000 Windows 7: And since this taskbar behavior is included in wyUpdate & wyBuild 2.2+, backwards compatibility is a must. Of course, what good is integrating this shiny new behavior into your apps if isnt backward compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista? None at all. This is what the new taskbar progress bar looks like when Internet Explorer downloads a file: The first control I want to give you is a way to use the new progress bar in your apps taskbar icon. ![]() ![]() NET 2.0 & Windows Forms, but will obviously be compatible with. ![]() I thought Id introduce a few controls to make Windows 7 development easier for C# and. Windows 7 will be available for download to MSDN and Technet subscriber in less than 2 weeks. ![]()
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