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## Summary Clicking the clock dock band in the CmdPal Dock now opens the Windows notification center (Action Center). A separate bell-icon-only dock band is also exposed for users who prefer a dedicated notification center shortcut. Closes #46327 ## Detail - **Clock band left-click**: replaced the previous `NoOpCommand` on `NowDockBand` with `OpenUrlCommand("ms-actioncenter:")`, dismissing the Dock on invoke. The `ms-actioncenter:` URI is the correct shell mechanism - `SendInput` Win+N was tested but dropped because it requires foreground focus, which the Dock holds at click time. - **Notification center band**: new `NotificationCenterDockBand` (`ListItem`) in `TimeDateCommandsProvider.cs`, with a bell icon (`\uEA8F`, Segoe Fluent Icons) and the same `ms-actioncenter:` command. Exposed as a second `WrappedDockItem` from `GetDockBands()` under the id `com.microsoft.cmdpal.timedate.notificationCenterBand`. Users can pin it from the Dock's edit mode. - **New resource strings**: `timedate_show_notification_center_command_name` and `timedate_notification_center_band_title` added to `Resources.resx` / `Resources.Designer.cs`. - **VS 2026 C++ build fixes** (pre-existing failures on `HEAD`): added `_SILENCE_EXPERIMENTAL_COROUTINE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS` to `CalculatorEngineCommon.vcxproj`. ## Screenshots <img width="339" height="991" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e0ef8c9a-ec1f-40fa-9620-1e83e6aeeb8d" /> ## How tested - Built `Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.csproj` (Debug x64) - 0 errors. - Launched dev `Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.exe`, clicked the clock band - notification center opened correctly. - Right-click context menu on the clock band still shows "Copy time" and "Copy date" unchanged. - Pinned the notification center band via edit mode - bell icon renders icon-only, click opens notification center.
PowerToys Source Code
Code organization
The PowerToys are split into DLLs for each PowerToy module (modules folder), and an executable (runner folder) that loads and manages those DLLs.
The settings window is a separate executable, contained in settings-ui folder. It utilizes a WebView to display an HTML-based settings window.
The common contains code for a static library with helper functions, used by both the runner and the PowerToys modules.