How to use the Windows Vista TaskDialog in WPF

Introduction

Windows Vista comes with an new standard dialog box called task dialog. The TaskDialog was developed as part of Windows Vista's "clarity" offensive to improve the user experience. It provides a lot more features than the original message box.

The TaskDialog is part of the comctrl32.dll library and only available on Windows Vista or later, its not part of WPF or the .NET framework. To use it from managed code, we need to write a interop wrapper.

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 Comments on this article

AlSki	Commented on 15.June 2009 When is it going to be finished?
vrd	Commented on 9.August 2009 looking forward to the article being finished.
Mani	Commented on 12.August 2009 You can use the Vista Bridge Library and/or the Windows API Code Pack: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VistaBridge http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack HTH, Mani
Austin	Commented on 25.August 2009 really looking foward to this... if i want to create an App with taskdialog, do i create the lib myself or can i download it from somewhere and use it?
cortisol	Commented on 31.August 2009 pretty much