Managed API for Windows Features

The Windows API Code Pack put out a new update recently (version 0.90) that adds new supported APIs to the set of managed wrappers around native Windows features. The code pack is a way to provide access to Windows features that lack an existing managed interface in the framework today, primarily for things added in Windows Vista and Windows 7. For example, the code pack allows you to integrate with newer shell, dialog, power, and DirectX features.

One set of APIs that WCF developers may be interested in that are new in this release of the code pack are the Network List Manager APIs. These allow you to enumerate all of the different networks that the computer has seen, including some properties about the networks and their current connectivity status, which may be useful for applications running on multihomed machines.