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How to use the Windows Vista TaskDialog in WPF

Windows Vista TaskDialog

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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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

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