Microsoft delivers the v1.0 Windows 7 Code Pack

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Catering to the needs of the dev community, Microsoft has recently released the 1.0 version of the Windows 7 Code Pack for the .NET Framework which offers a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features from managed code. Coming with bug fixes, performance enhancements and quite a few additions, the updated package provides support for the following features:

- 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.

To get the Windows 7 API Code Pack 1.0 check out this page.