ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications

One of the things that I talked a little about in my talk about “Modern Windows Applications on Windows 7” was around the idea of using a TaskDialog when you’re trying to get a response from the user rather than using your own custom dialog or a MessageBox or similar.

As an aside, this isn’t just about TaskDialogs and MessageBoxes and so on – there’s other reasons why you would want to get the latest version of common controls loaded into a WPF application but this particular area was one that I’d left “hanging” at that previous talk as I hadn’t resolved it at the time.

TaskDialog isn’t represented in the .NET Framework at all as far as I know so you need to look to the Windows API Code Pack which provides a managed TaskDialog class that you can make use of to make getting to the native APIs pretty easy.

To illustrate this in its entirety, here’s the world’s simplest example.

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