I'm having a problem and I noticed 90% of Windows(7,8,10) applications don't update taskbar preview (that little window when you hover over an app icon in taskbar) so when the app is minimized the taskbar preview just freezes and don't update besides some apps do update it even when minimized (e.g. Windows Media Player, Music Bee). I tried to fix this issue myself using WindowsAPICodePack
and cropped the taskbar preview and I also used a second form and set the Opacity
to 0 but it didn't work. I don't have any code to show right now.
To refresh the taskbar preview programmatically and use custom bitmaps:
Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Taskbar
Namespace CustomThumbnailImage
Public Partial Class Form1
Inherits Form
Private customThumbnail As TabbedThumbnail
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
Protected Overrides Sub OnShown(ByVal e As EventArgs)
MyBase.OnShown(e)
customThumbnail = New TabbedThumbnail(Me.Handle, Me.Handle)
TaskbarManager.Instance.TabbedThumbnail.AddThumbnailPreview(customThumbnail)
customThumbnail.TabbedThumbnailBitmapRequested += AddressOf customThumbnail_TabbedThumbnailBitmapRequested
End Sub
Private Function GenerateBitmap() As Bitmap
Dim bitmap As Bitmap = New Bitmap(150, 150)
Using g = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap)
Dim random = New Random(Environment.TickCount)
Using brush = New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, random.[Next](255), random.[Next](255), random.[Next](255)))
g.FillEllipse(brush, 10, 30, 130, 90)
End Using
End Using
Return bitmap
End Function
Private Sub customThumbnail_TabbedThumbnailBitmapRequested(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As TabbedThumbnailBitmapRequestedEventArgs)
Dim bitmap = GenerateBitmap()
customThumbnail.SetImage(bitmap)
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(Sub(c)
Thread.Sleep(2000)
Me.Invoke(New MethodInvoker(AddressOf InvalidateThumbnail))
End Sub)
End Sub
Private Sub InvalidateThumbnail()
customThumbnail.InvalidatePreview()
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
All part of the Win7Api Samples