microsoft / microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Support TaskbarManager (pinning to taskbar) from desktop apps
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Description
Summary
TaskbarManager API is supported in UWP apps but not desktop apps (the API doesn't have a way to pass through your HWND so it's non-functional in desktop apps). The API is used to pin your primary tile to the taskbar, along with pinning secondary tiles to taskbar (the secondary tiles are a limited access feature that we typically instead recommend using Hosted Apps for, but the primary tile pinning is a slightly more popular API).
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Research direction
Start with the TaskbarManager API documentation linked in the issue and the Windows App SDK desktop-app support surface. Confirm how desktop apps could provide the HWND that the API currently lacks, and define done as primary taskbar pinning working from desktop apps, with secondary-tile support considered separately.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100