Jumplist & Taskbar - Session 1 Win7 Launch

Taking Your Application to the Next Level with Windows 7
Mithun Dhar
Developer evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

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Email: mithund@microsoft.com
Twitter:@mithund
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Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mithund

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When & Where
Los Angeles Convention Center
Conference | Nov 17 – 19
Workshops & Boot Camp | Nov 16
Pricing
Event Registration - $2095
Discount through Oct 13 - $1795
Additional Workshop Fee - $395
One Day Pass - $695
Workshop Only Pass - $495
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This session is open to the public. You must register online to attend. More info:
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Housekeeping
Cell Phones on stun mode, please!
Restrooms
Swag – Windows 7 Ultimate 
Evaluations – Please fill out!
Speakers
Mithun Dhar (DE)
Jason Mauer (DE)
YochayKiriaty (DE)

Today’s Agenda
Taking Your Application to the Next Level with Windows 7
Taskbars
Jump lists
Overlays
Building Next Generation UI with Multitouch & Windows Ribbon in Windows 7
Ribbon Markup and API
Multitouch Developer Options
Multitouch
Beyond Human Interaction with Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform
Use Sensor Platform to Give Life to Your Application
Location Location Location
Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware with DirectX

Windows 7 - Taskbar
Look how far we have come!

Design Goals For New Taskbar
Single launch surface
Easily controllable
Clean, noise-free, and simple
New opportunities for extensibility
Enhanced productivity

Taskbar Buttons
Consolidation
Quick launch
Notification area icon
Desktop shortcut
Running application windows
Multiple windows and hover
Running
Not running
Active

The New Windows 7 Taskbar
Evolution of launch surfaces
Clean, sleek, elegant design
Enhances user productivity, making switching between windows much easier
Host of other useful features

Windows Taskbar Features
Main Features
Overlay icons & progress bars
Jump lists (destinations, tasks)
Thumbnail toolbars
Custom thumbnails
Tabbed thumbnails
Design Tip
Build a great Taskbar Icon
Forget about Quick Launch and the system tray

Windows 7 Taskbar
A Tour
demo

Windows 7 Taskbar
ZooBar
demo

Summary
Build a great Windows 7 Application
Get compatible
Optimize
Differentiate
Get the most out of Windows 7
Greater reliability
Better performance
Resource utilization
Empower users to do more

Additional Windows 7 Resources
Technical Resources
Windows Developer Center on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd433113.aspx
Windows Application Compatibility Developer Center http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/aa904987.aspx
Windows 7 Remediation Labs http://www.readyset7.com/workshops
Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9681321
“PhotoView” Reference Application (XP2Win7Project) http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/XP2Win7
Training Resources
Community Resources
Training Offers—Exclusive for Launch Attendees www.microsoft.com/learning/careeroffers
Windows 7 Blog for Developers www.windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers.aspx
Windows 7 on Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Windows+7

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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Addendum

Application Compatibility
Working Together :)

Application Compatibility Moving from Windows XP to Windows 7
Version checking
User Account Control
Filtered token and privilege elevation
Data redirection
Windows integrity levels
Internet Explorer® protection mode
Session 0 isolation

Application CompatibilityMoving from Windows Vista to Windows 7
Version checking
Low level binary changes
Low level network stack
Antivirus
Removed components
Windows Mail
Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft Agent (msagent.exe)

Get CompatibleAvailable Resources
Windows Application Compatibility Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/aa904987.aspx
Application Compatibility on TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/aa905066.aspx
Application Compatibility Online Remediation
http://readyset7.com/workshops
Application Compatibility in Windows 7 Training Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1c333f06-fadb-4d93-9c80-402621c600e7

Optimizing
Working Better

Optimize for PerformanceGet the Most Out of Windows Performance Enhancements
Application restart and recovery with Restart Manager
I/O priorities and cancelable I/O
File System and Registry Transaction Support
Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) – high-performance instrumentation
Windows Error Reporting
Windows Troubleshooting Platform
Trigger-Start Services

Trigger-Start Services
Background services affect performance, security, reliability, and power consumption
You want to minimize the amount of services running at a given time
You want to minimize service footprint and runtime
Service startup types
Windows XP – Auto-Start / Manual
Windows Vista – XP + Delayed Auto-Start
Windows 7 – Windows Vista + Trigger-Start
Available triggers
Domain join, IP address available, device arrival, group policy change, and custom

Windows 7 for Developers
Jump Lists
Answer:
Question:
How important?
Jump Lists are probably the most important feature that applications need to take advantage of in order to truly shine on Windows 7
Put important documents at the user’s fingertips
You also expect the common tasks to be there
TaskBar

Jump ListsA detailed look
Pinned category
Destinations
(“nouns”)
Known categories
Custom categories
User tasks
Tasks
(“verbs”)
Taskbar tasks

Jump Lists
Each taskbar button is associated with a jump list.
This is a retractable menu that shows a collection of items and tasks that are relevant to the given application.
TaskBar

Jump Lists
JumpListLink – an object that extends the ShellLink object and implements IJumpListTasks
TaskBar

the taskbar
The Windows 7 Taskbar
The Windows 7 Taskbar
The evolving user interface….

512K of Ram !

Taskbar Buttons
Consolidation
Quick launch
Notification area icon
Desktop shortcut
Running application windows
Multiple windows and hover
Running
Not running
Active

Windows 7 Taskbar
Enhanced user experience
Quick and easy launch of applications
Easier to manage windows
The user is in control
Clean and lightweight
Standard Windows UX guidelines
All of Microsoft’s products
Enhanced Taskbar & Desktop
Jump Lists
Thumbnail Toolbars
Custom Switchers
Icons
Overlay Icons
Progress Bars

Windows 7 Taskbar – Icons
Face of your program
Large and small icons
Only customer can pin
Color hot-track
Icon Overlay
Surface important notifications
Appears over your program’s icon
Progress bar
Surface important notifications
Appears in your taskbar button

IconsBest practices
Are you putting your best foot forward?
Make sure your icon looks great
Check different DPIs
Check different glass colors and disabled glass
How does Color Hot-track look?
Determined by your icon’s dominant color

Get More From Taskbar ButtonsOverlay and progress icons
Consolidate: Uncluttered notification area
Provide progress and additional information through the taskbar button
It’s free if you use standard progress dialogs

Taskbar Overlay and ProgressDesign considerations
Notification area is now user controlled:
Leave yourself out if possible!
Use taskbar buttons for custom progress or status information

Peek Preview (Aero Peek)
Live peek without a click

Live Thumbnails
Live thumbnails: A live preview
Windows Vista: One thumbnail per window
Windows 7: Grouped thumbnails

Windows 7 Taskbar – Thumbnails
Remote-control for a window
Surface key commands
Accessible from taskbar thumbnail
Up to seven buttons

Thumbnail ToolbarsContrasting Thumbnail Toolbar commands and user tasks

Exposing Custom ThumbnailsOverriding Automatic Thumbnail Preview
To provide a custom thumbnail preview representation for a window:
Set the DWM window attribute to say you will provide an “iconic bitmap” for the window
Respond to the window messages DWM will then send in order to set the preview – done for both thumbnail- and full-sized previews

Hi phone!

Windows 7 Taskbar – Custom Switchers
Surface custom UI (e.g. TDI/MDI)
Custom thumbnails for each window
Appears in your program’s window list

MDI and TDI Window Switchers
What about Internet Explorer tabs?

Windows API Code Pack for the .NET Library
Managed class library to access to Win 7 features
Windows Shell namespace
Windows Vista and Windows 7 Task Dialogs.
Support for Shell property system.
Taskbar Jumplists, Icon Overlay and Progress bar.
Common file dialogs
Support for Direct3D 11.0 and DXGI 1.0/1.1 APIs.
Sensor Platform APIs
Extended Linguistic Services APIs
http://code.msdn.com/windowsAPICodePack

Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists
Mini Start Menu for your program
Surface key destinations and tasks
Customizable
Accessible via right-click and via drag
APIs use the name “Destination List”

Pinned category
Destinations
(“nouns”)
Known categories
Custom categories
User Tasks
Tasks
(“verbs”)
Taskbar Tasks
Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists

Customizing the Jump ListStep 1: Get the free stuff to work
Associate your program with the file extension
Use common file dialogs
Use explicit recent document API

Customizing the Jump ListStep 2: Adding tasks
What would your user like to do?
Launch your application with special arguments?
Launch other applications?
Tasks are IShellLink objects
Rich shortcut semantics including arguments, working directory, icon, and so on.

Customizing the Jump ListStep 3: Do you have categories?
Does it make sense to categorize documents?
Is frequent, recent, pinned not enough?
For example, Inbox, Outbox, Sales, Marketing …
Categories contain IShellItem or IShellLink objects
These are documents: You need a file association

Some metrics…
More than 90% of sessions have fewer than 15 windows
More than 70% of sessions have fewer than 10
Non-default taskbar options are used by 0-10% of users

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