Build Taskbar Overlay (2013)
A watched pot never boils, and a watched Atmel Studio project never finishes compiling. Since I don't enjoy sitting around and waiting, I made a basic Windows-7 only extension for Atmel Studio to add in a progress bar animation and icon overlay on the Windows Taskbar when a project is compiling, or finished (with errors, no errors or warnings).
![Build Taskbar Overlay extension running inside Atmel Studio 6](img/VSIX/BuildTaskbarOverlay.png)
Multiple icon themes are selectable in the extension options.