Emulate Android sliding window in Vista

[DCritelli]

Hello,

I've been seeing a lot of clips floating around the web recently showing Android installed on various devices and it got me thinking. It would be cool to emulate the sliding shortcut window that docks at the bottom of the screen. For anybody not familiar. There's a tab at the bottom of the screen that you touch and it slides up showing all your installed applications then you hit it again or choose an app and it slides back down. It would dock on one of the sides of your screen and hold all your shortcuts. Kinda like Rocket Dock but more Android instead of OS X.

I'm a beginner/intermediate level programmer and this seems like a neat learning project for me, but I have no idea how to start figuring out how to accomplish this. I'm looking for some hints on what to start looking at to figure this out. I'm most comfortable with vb 2005 but I have Visual Studio 2008 so I'm thinking maybe I can use WPF somehow? Appreciate any tips or suggestions.

Thanks,

Dcritelli

[dilettante]

Vista has this thing in the lower-left corner that looks like a blue ball with a Windows logo on it...

[DCritelli]

Yeah, but that's not the point.

[Astari]

I'm sure you could do the sliding part easy enough with a Expression Design animation thingy. At least it works nicely for Sliverlight apps, and it should work for normal Windows apps (as long as you're using WPF).