How to dock an application in the Windows desktop?

The most reliable way would be to register your application as an Application Desktop Toolbar (AppBar).

You will need to interop to do this, here is a Code Project article on doing this with C#, it should be a fair starting point. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/AppBar.aspx

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You want to create an AppBar!

Basically call SHAppBarMessage() with ABM_NEW, ABM_QUERYPOS, ABM_SETPOS and ABM_ACTIVATE, in that order.

If you want to do it from managed code, you'll have to write the interop yourself, or use this from pinvoke.net.

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