# ReactOS GSoC Week 1: Planning a Taskbar Shell Extension

DevFeed: [ReactOS GSoC Week 1: Planning a Taskbar Shell Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/gsoc-project-tse-week-1-32825.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/gsoc-project-tse-week-1/>)

Published: 2017-06-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [Shell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shell.md>), [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/extension.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>), [Toolbar](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/toolbar.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>)

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## AI overview

A developer's first-week update on a ReactOS GSoC Taskbar Shell Extension project. The week focused on understanding the codebase, revising the project plan and milestones, and learning Windows programming concepts and technologies including COM and ATL.

## Source excerpt

Hi, its me Shriraj. :) This is my second blog on my GSoC project TSE(Taskbar Shell Extension). So, finally coding period began, and I was excited enough to pump out some code boiling within my mind! Sir Giannis (aka gadamopoulos) and Sir Sylvain (aka sdever) are my mentors in this project. In this first week, basically mentor Giannis showed me how to step into this huge codebase of reactos and helped me to get started by providing the canvas for my code.