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How to hide/show the Windows 8 taskbar on any monitor through .NET?

I have a personal application that allows me to hide and show the Taskbar in Windows. It achieved this by making calls into user32.dll:

ShowWindow(int hwnd, int command)

Documentation for this API can be found here.

The issue I have is that obviously the taskbar has changed a bit in Windows 8 as it now extends across all your monitors.

Does anyone know if it is possible in Windows 8 to hide and show the taskbar (with code only) on individual screens and if so, how?

Solution

  • After searching around for a long time for this, I decided to write my own.

    I have uploaded it to Nuget. It can be found here:

    http://nuget.org/packages/BasicWindowsTaskbarManager

    I doubt it's the most stable library in the world, but if you do have issues, just let me know and I'll see what I can do.