Expanded Library
Introduction to Windows 7 Development
by Kate Gregory
Gets you started developing for Windows 7 using the Windows API Code Pack, a managed library from Microsoft
What you'll learn
This tutorial is aimed at Windows developers (Windows Forms or WPF) who want to add Windows 7 capabilities to their application. The emphasis is on providing a helpful and efficient user experience by hooking into what Windows 7 has to offer. You do not need to know how to interop to native code or how the Windows 7 features work internally.
About the author
Kate Gregory is in her fifth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking are her preferred ways of sharing wisdom with large groups of people.
Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at conferences around the world, with keynotes on 5 continents. Kate is a C++ MVP, develops courses (primaril... morey on C++) for Pluralsight, and occasionally writes a new book. She is one of the founders of #include , includecpp.org, working to make C++ more welcoming and inclusive.