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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:45:07+00:00

The new Windows 7 taskbar features , like jump lists, previews, etc. are really

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The new Windows 7 taskbar features, like jump lists, previews, etc. are really cool, and I want to allow my C# applications to use them. I have two questions:

First of all, how can I use these functions (in general)? I found two articles by Microsoft about this, but I’m not really sure what to do. Could you provide links to a library, as well as some sample code?

Next, let’s say that I figure out how to use these Taskbar functions. My question is, is there some built-in way of checking whether the OS is Windows 7, and thus enabling the taskbar functions? If I didn’t have this logic in my app, would it have problems if it was run on a non-Win7 machine?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In the first article you link to there is a sample library that you can download that makes use of the new Windows 7 features.

    This article shows how to check the version of Windows your application is running on.

    As always, if you call an API that isn’t in existence, then yes, your app will experience some turbulence. Remember, it’s (almost) always better to check for a condition and act accordingly once (as in application startup) than to try something over and over in code and catch exceptions.

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