This code increases the value of the progress bar in the window and at the same time also increases the value of the progress bar in the application icon. The state of the Taskbar progress bar is set by the value in the ComboBox which lets you notify the user with different colors about the state of the activity.

As you can see, these three features are quite simple to create and you can add them into your .NET applications with the minimum of effort, yet offer a great new user experience to your end customers. Next month we'll take a look at more such stuff that lets you do tasks easily in Windows 7.