The Windows® API Code Pack v0.90 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 (v0.90) of the library are:
- Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and Thumbnail Toolbars.
- Known Folders, Windows 7 Libraries, non-file system containers, and a hierarchy of Shell Namespace entities.
- Windows 7 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.
What’s New in this update (v0.90):
The new features added in this update of code pack are:
- Tabbed Thumbnail and Thumbnail Toolbar features in Taskbar area.
- Direct3D 10.1/10.0, Direct2D 1.0, DirectWrite and WIC APIs in the DirectX area
- Power Management
- Application Restart and Recovery
- Command Link
- System defined Shell icons
- Network List Manager APIs
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