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RWBear
RWBear

Reputation: 233

Taskbar Search Application

I have program that is used by 4000 users to search a large database based on a large number of search scenarios. The current application is a System Tray application and when the user clicks application icon, it opens a winform window and allows the user to enter some text and then returns the search results. I’ve been asked by my CIO if I can just put a textbox and button in the task bars so it always there for the user. I’ve googled everything and can’t find anything on this. I have Window 7 and Vista OS’s some 32 bit and some 64 bit. Does anyone know of an example on how to do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1080

Answers (2)

Yuriy Faktorovich
Yuriy Faktorovich

Reputation: 68737

You can register your own Protocol Handler. Then you can add the address toolbar to the taskbar. Then a user can just type "search:steak".

Upvotes: 1

Jude Cooray
Jude Cooray

Reputation: 19872

Take a look at this CodeProject article that does something similar.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/dotnetbandobjects.aspx

Also take a look at a similar question asked here on SO.

And also there's an MSDN article posted in the question. See the references section in the article for more information.

Upvotes: 1

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