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Native WinUI 3 interface with Mica, Acrylic, light, dark, and system color modes
Native Windows desktop experience
PrimeDock
Your workspace, one dock away.
A fast, polished WinUI 3 dock that keeps apps, files, and folders close — with real Windows workspace reservation, live localization, and reliable multi-monitor behavior.
- Visual profiles
- 12
- Icon sizes
- 5
- Screen edges
- 4
- Automated tests
- 145
Designed around your desktop
Native speed. Thoughtful control.
Every interaction is built to feel at home on Windows, from Shell icons and keyboard focus to fullscreen-aware placement.
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Optional Windows AppBar workspace reservation on all four screen edges
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Automatic horizontal or vertical orientation based on the snapped edge
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Multi-monitor and per-monitor DPI-aware placement with safe display recovery
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Live Turkish, English, Simplified Chinese, and system-language switching
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High-fidelity Shell icons for Win32, Store, Steam, files, folders, .lnk, and .url targets
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Drag files and shortcuts into the dock, then reorder icons directly
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Launch-or-focus behavior with Shift-click support for a new application instance
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Fullscreen-aware topmost behavior for games, video, and presentation workflows
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Keyboard navigation with Tab, Enter, Space, screen-reader names, and reduced-motion support
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Twelve visual profiles, five icon sizes, opacity control, and maximum-length management
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Atomic settings persistence with backup recovery, logging, and single-instance lifecycle
Professional workspace integration
A dock that Windows understands.
PrimeDock negotiates the real work area through the Windows AppBar API. Maximized windows stop at the dock, fullscreen apps retain priority, and floating mode remains completely free.
Windows-supported APIs
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Real AppBar reservation
Uses SHAppBarMessage for a system-managed work area on the selected monitor and edge.
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Multi-monitor protection
Preserves desktop icon placement when Explorer reacts to horizontal work-area changes.
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Fullscreen awareness
Games, videos, and presentations can use the complete display without fighting the dock.
Live personalization
Change the experience without restarting.
Themes, opacity, icon size, orientation, and language update while PrimeDock stays open. Turkish, English, Simplified Chinese, and the Windows system language are supported.
Dynamic Localization
Centralized observable resources update open windows, menus, tooltips, titles, and runtime messages without restarting.
Adaptive Shell Icons
Requests the appropriate Windows icon representation for each target and dock size while retaining alpha quality.
Reliable Placement
Keeps dock geometry inside the active display and recovers gracefully when monitors or DPI settings change.
Durable Local State
Writes settings atomically, retains a known-good backup, and restores user state after interrupted writes.
PrimeDock in action
Horizontal and vertical layouts, compact surfaces, and the complete settings experience.
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Engineering
Built as a dependable Windows application.
A clean Core/App separation keeps geometry and state testable while Windows integration remains isolated behind focused services.
- Application UI
- WinUI 3 and Windows App SDK 2.3
- Runtime
- .NET 10 / C#
- Workspace integration
- SHAppBarMessage and Win32 window management
- Desktop layout
- IFolderView::SelectAndPositionItems
- Icon pipeline
- Windows Shell extraction with size-aware caching
- Persistence
- Versioned JSON, atomic writes, and backup recovery
