Libraries

  The Windows API Code Pack for the .NET Framework is a managed library for building applications that light up on Windows 7. It provides access to new user interface features (taskbar jump lists, libraries, sensor platform and more) as well as "behind the scenes" features that make…

This is the fourth and last screencast about programming the Windows 7 libraries, and it is not really focused on libraries, but a different topic related to Windows Shell and Windows Explorer. Windows 7 introduces support for search federation to remote data stores using OpenSearch…

This is the third of four screencasts about programming the Windows 7 libraries. In this video we’ll focus on the coding for integration with libraries, specifically on how to create libraries, add and remove folders from libraries, and receive notifications about changes to a library structure.…

This is the second of four screencasts about programming the Windows 7 libraries. In this video we’ll focus on the coding for integration with libraries, specifically on how to retrieve data from a library and register for change notifications to receive an update when a library structure…

Welcome to this short series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use Libraries to Light Up their applications on Windows 7. Windows 7 introduces the concept of Libraries as the new entry point for users’ data. In Libraries, users can find and organize their data as…

Jim O'Neil concludes his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers with an overview of the new APIs that allows applications to take advantage of cool new features like libraries, jump lists and thumbnails on the taskbar, multi-touch, sensors, the Windows Ribbon, and native…

Much of what you can do with .NET, from a compositional perspective, is enabled by the vast functionality housed in .NET's huge base class libraries (in fact, the BCL is what provides all the incredibly default(part of the .NET framework) useful objects you use to paint your binary vision).…

Yochay Kiriaty has completed is fifth post over on the Windows 7 Developer Blog covering how to take advantage of the Libraries feature in Windows 7. His most recent post provides a review of the last four articles: This is the fifth post about Windows 7 Libraries. By now, you should be…

Ale Contenti is a Senior Development Lead on the VC++ team. He works primarily on Safe Libraries and associated constructs. Here, we learn about what's new in VC SL (checked iterators are certainly cool - and fast too), things to think about in terms of writing "safe"…