Taskbar-Style

This code allows you to set the Windows taskbar Style to Transparant, Blur or Acrylic in VB.NET like TranslucentTB does.

Declarations

    Friend Structure WindowCompositionAttributeData
        Public Attribute As WindowCompositionAttribute
        Public Data As IntPtr
        Public SizeOfData As Integer
    End Structure

    Friend Enum WindowCompositionAttribute
        WCA_ACCENT_POLICY = 19
    End Enum

    Friend Enum AccentState
        ACCENT_DISABLED = 0
        ACCENT_ENABLE_GRADIENT = 1
        ACCENT_ENABLE_TRANSPARENTGRADIENT = 2
        ACCENT_ENABLE_BLURBEHIND = 3
        ACCENT_ENABLE_TRANSPARANT = 6
        ACCENT_ENABLE_ACRYLICBLURBEHIND = 4
    End Enum

    <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)>
    Friend Structure AccentPolicy
        Public AccentState As AccentState
        Public AccentFlags As Integer
        Public GradientColor As Integer
        Public AnimationId As Integer
    End Structure

    Friend Declare Function SetWindowCompositionAttribute Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByRef data As WindowCompositionAttributeData) As Integer
    Private Declare Auto Function FindWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As IntPtr

Code

    Friend Sub EnableTaskbarStyle()
        Dim tskBarClassName As String = "Shell_TrayWnd"
        Dim tskBarHwnd As IntPtr = FindWindow(tskBarClassName, Nothing)
        Dim accent = New AccentPolicy()
        Dim accentStructSize = Marshal.SizeOf(accent)

        ' # Taskbar Style Acrylic
        ' accent.AccentState = AccentState.ACCENT_ENABLE_ACRYLICBLURBEHIND
        ' accent.GradientColor = 10 'Or 16777215

        ' # Taskbar Style Blur
        ' accent.AccentState = AccentState.ACCENT_ENABLE_BLURBEHIND

        ' # Taskbar Style Transparant
        accent.AccentState = AccentState.ACCENT_ENABLE_TRANSPARANT

        Dim accentPtr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(accentStructSize)
        Marshal.StructureToPtr(accent, accentPtr, False)
        Dim data = New WindowCompositionAttributeData()
        data.Attribute = WindowCompositionAttribute.WCA_ACCENT_POLICY
        data.SizeOfData = accentStructSize
        data.Data = accentPtr
        SetWindowCompositionAttribute(tskBarHwnd, data)
        Marshal.FreeHGlobal(accentPtr)
    End Sub