Show/Hide Deskband Programmatically

[Usman Sherwani]

Hi!

I have created a deskband, which appears on the taskbar(like Quick Launch
bar, language bar eyc). I would like to be able to

enable and disable it through an application(not from the context menu
appearing on the taskbar).

I have studied the functinon "ShowBrowserBar" of Shell32.IShellDispatch2 i
think which can help me but it gives me an exception.

I have added the reference Shell32.dll in my Application. and write the
folloeing code.

Dim oshell As Shell32.IShellDispatch2

oshell = New Shell32.Shell

oshell.ShowBrowserBar("{0A4286EA-E355-44FB-8086-AF3DF7645BD9}", True)

It generates the following error message:

"An unhandled exception of type
'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in Show-Hide.exe

Additional information: Unspecified error"

but if I want to show/hide the Favuorite band in Web Browser then it works
fine. For this I have to add the SHDocVw.dll in Reference. This is the
following code for that

Dim objWB As New SHDocVw.WebBrowser

objWB.ShowBrowserBar("{EFA24E61-B078-11d0-89E4-00C04FC9E26E}", True)

objWB.Visible = True

But i want to show/hide deskbar (Quick Launch , Windows Media Player,
Language bar) programmatically.

If anybody have done
with it then plz reply me

Thanx.