{"id":308,"date":"2009-06-23T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-06-23T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T08:49:26","slug":"windows-api-code-pack-for-microsoft-net-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/23\/windows-api-code-pack-for-microsoft-net-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.msdn.microsoft.com\/WindowsAPICodePack\" target=\"_blank\">Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework<\/a>. It&#8217;s a code pack that allows .NET developers to take advantage of some of the new Windows 7 features.<\/p>\n<p>Features supported by version 0.9 of the code pack are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and Thumbnail Toolbars.<\/li>\n<li>Known Folders, Windows 7 Libraries, non-file system containers, and a hierarchy of Shell Namespace entities.<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 Explorer Browser Control.<\/li>\n<li>Shell property system.<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista and Windows 7 Common File Dialogs, including custom controls.<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista and Windows 7 Task Dialogs.<\/li>\n<li>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)<\/li>\n<li>Sensor Platform APIs<\/li>\n<li>Extended Linguistic Services APIs<\/li>\n<li>Power Management APIs<\/li>\n<li>Application Restart and Recovery APIs<\/li>\n<li>Network List Manager APIs<\/li>\n<li>Command Link control and System defined Shell icons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.NET Framework 3.5 or later.<\/li>\n<li>This library targets the Windows 7 RC version, though some of the features will work on the older versions of Windows operating system.<\/li>\n<li>DirectX features have dependency on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=f75f2ca8-c1e4-4801-9281-2f5f28f12dbd\" target=\"_blank\">Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC<\/a> and March 2009 release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=24a541d6-0486-4453-8641-1eee9e21b282&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">DirectX SDK<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a few short 2-minute videos available to show you how easy it is to use some of the above features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It&#8217;s a code pack that allows .NET developers to take advantage of some of the new Windows 7 features. Features supported by version 0.9 of the code pack are: Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16,17],"tags":[54,30],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-software-development","tag-code-pack","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}