Windows API Code Pack v1.1 Released!

Last Tuesday (31.08.2010) Microsoft released a new version for the excellent managed library, Windows API Code Pack.

For those who don’t know, this library serves as a managed wrapper for many Windows APIs which are not included in .NET framework, especially new features from Windows Vista and Windows 7.

I’ve been working with this library for quite some time now and I must say it is “.NET missing piece”. Most of Windows features which doesn’t exists in .NET are at your fingertips =, without handling all the Interop stuff yourself.

With the coming of .NET Framework v4.0 which support side by side execution, we finally can write managed shell extensions without to worry about race conditions between the installed CLRs. And what could be a better starting point for such a shell extension than Windows API Code Pack?

What’s New?

So, what’s new in this release?

Well, the official site says that other than bug fixes, the main new features are:

Shell Object Watcher
Preview Handler APIs
Thumbnail Handler APIs

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