Windows 7 Code Pack v1.0 Released – Managed code to help get at the yummy Windows 7 filling… - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

Friday, August 07, 2009

Windows 7 Code Pack v1.0 Released – Managed code to help get at the yummy Windows 7 filling…

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog - Windows 7 Code Pack V. 1.0 Released

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Here are some of the features you can from managed code using the Code Pack:

Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and Thumbnail Toolbars.

Windows 7 Libraries, Known Folders, non-file system containers.

Windows Shell Search API support, a hierarchy of Shell Namespace entities, and Drag and Drop functionality for Shell Objects.

Explorer Browser Control.

Shell property system.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Common File Dialogs, including custom controls.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Task Dialogs.

Direct3D 11.0, Direct3D 10.1/10.0, DXGI 1.0/1.1, Direct2D 1.0, DirectWrite, Windows Imaging Component (WIC) APIs. (DirectWrite and WIC have partial support)

Sensor Platform APIs

Extended Linguistic Services APIs

Power Management APIs

Application Restart and Recovery APIs

Network List Manager APIs

Command Link control and System defined Shell icons.

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CodePlex - Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework

“The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework.
The individual features supported in this version (v1.0) of the library are:

[GD: Same list as above]

What’s New in this update (v1.0):
The new features added in this update of code pack are:

Shell Search API support.

Drag and Drop functionality for Shell objects.

Support for Direct3D and Direct2D interoperability.

Support for Typography and Font enumeration DirectWrite APIs.

Other enhancements done in this update are:

Bug fixes in all areas.

Performance optimizations.

Some improved and new samples (esp. for the new features in this release).

Improved API reference documentation

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Samples:
The Code Pack also contains sample applications built using this library. Each sample has a C# version and a VB.NET version and has its own solution file. [GD: VB samples makes me smile… :]

Documentation:
The Code Pack also includes API reference documentation. API documentation files can be found in two separate files 'WindowsAPICodePackHelp' and ‘DirectXCodePackHelp’.

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Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework - Windows API Code Pack 1.0

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Files
WindowsAPICodePack.zip
source code, 6848K, uploaded Thu – …

WindowsAPICodePack.chm
documentation, 4573K, uploaded Thu – …

DirectXCodePackHelp.chm
documentation, 4597K, uploaded Thu – …

DirectXCodePack_Requirements.htm
documentation, 13K, uploaded Thu – …

WindowsAPICodePackHelp
documentation, 4240K, uploaded Today – …

DirectXCodePackHelp
documentation, 4258K, uploaded Today – …

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