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VSBuildStatus Addin Taskbar Progress on Windows 7

mariusbancila Tools, Visual Studio 2009-12-09

I have updated my Visual Studio addin that displays the status of a build/clean/deploy action. If you get the latest version, 1.2, and are running Visual Studio 2005, 2008 or 2010 (they are all supported) on Windows 7, the progress of the build is also displayed on the Taskbar, on the item corresponding to the Visual Studio instance.

The following images show no progress, different progress steps, and an error during the build/clean/deploy, both for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2).

No progress

Build progress

Error during build

Build progress

Error during build

This was possible by using the Windows 7 Taskbar interop library available on MSDN Code Gallery here.

You can get the latest version of the addin from the Visual Studio Gallery at this link.

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3 comments untill now

u0m3 @ 2009-12-09 16:18

Have you managed to fix the exception for Visual Studio 2010?

I got this upon running it: http://img18.imageshack.us/i/errorvsbuildstatusvs10.png/

In Visual Studio 2008 it works fine.

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit
mariusbancila @ 2009-12-09 16:49

I wasn’t aware of this error, but I’ll check it again.
mariusbancila @ 2009-12-09 23:00

I doubled checked this with my Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 installation and it works without any error. The addin is installed in the same location as in your case. If you still get errors with version 1.2.0 please contact me on my email so that we can discuss more details. Thank you.