I am putting the finishing touches on a WTL version of the MFC TaskBarNotifier class.  I'm finally getting back to C++ programming, after many months of working on several C# projects.  Here's a screen shot of the notifier window, executed as a 64 bit C++ program.  I've added a few new properties, such as transparency and degree of opacity.

I've placed the source code on my wiki.  You may download the code here.