Code Pack
Code Pack : What’s New in this update
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
Other enhancements done in this update are:
- Bug fixes in all areas.
- Many new and improved samples.
- Addition of VB.NET samples in some areas.
Code Pack : Features
- 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.
Code Pack : Requirements
- Minimum .NET Framework version required to use this library is 3.5.
- This library targets the Windows 7 RC version, though some of the features will work on the older versions of Windows operating system.
- DirectX features have dependency on Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC and March 2009 release of DirectX SDK.
Code Pack : Building the Library
- To build the library (except the DirectX related features) in Visual Studio 2008, please extract the contents of the ‘WindowsAPICodePack.zip’ file in a new folder and build the included ‘WindowsAPICodePack.sln’ file.
- To build the DirectX features, build the 'DirectX.sln' file inside the DirectX directory. Please read the DirectX Readme file (DirectXReadme.mht - available as separate download and also included in the help files) for additional information about building and using DirectX features.
Code Pack : Samples
The Code Pack also contains sample applications built using this library. Most of the samples are written in C# and have their own solution files. Some VB.NET samples are also included.
Please note that the VB.NET samples currently do not have individual solution files (they have only project files). You can add these .vbproj files to a solution created by you or can use the default solution file generated by Visual Studio. To build the VB.NET samples, please add the .csproj files for the needed Code Pack assemblies in the solution (right click the solution Add | Existing Project, and then browse to the needed .csproj files like core.csproj, shell.csproj, sensors.csproj etc.)
Related links
With the Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework, you can now use managed code for quick access to new features in Windows 7 (and some features in Windows Vista). The Code Pack also includes sample applications built using the tools in this library.
Windows 7 API Code Pack
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