Hi,

I've written a level designer in C# / WinForms. As part of this, I'd like to add the ability to report the set of recently used files so that when a user right clicks on the task bar, they get a list of the recently used files / possibly a set of tasks (such as create new level). This'd match the behaviour of apps like Visual Studio and the browsers etc.

Looking on google, I can see there's a UWP API (Windows.Storage.AccessCache) which would appear to be what I want, but I don't see what the WinForms equivalent would be. 

Does anyone know what the equivalent would be / where to look?

Thanks

Steve

PS This is independent of the adding the entries to the ribbon's home area

Hi, although not answering all of your question, I found one of my WinForms apps I’ve written automatically shows ‘Recent’ files used on it if I right click on it in the task bar.  I believe this is the case because I’ve associated a file type (used by my app) to my application.  I did this association in the installer for my application but can be done from c# as well.

Currently I have my application pinned to the task bar and when I right click on it, it shows recent files used.  Selecting one of these files starts my application and passes the filename as argument 2 when calling main. I.e.

static void Main()
{
	string[] args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
	if (args.Length > 1)
	{
		if (args[1].ToLower().EndsWith(".abc") )
		{
			// Load in recent abc file

I don’t know how to add tasks to a right click, sorry.

Hi @desiado, thanks. 

That confirms that it's definitely something that the framework will provide for me automatically if I can find out the magic keyword to use to let it know that I've done the load internally to the app.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks @desiado. You've given me the key hint of jumplist though, I didn't know what the feature is called, at least now I know what I'm meant to be searching for. I'll do some more research over the weekend and let you know how I get on. 

Thanks again

Steve