CAPICOM.dll Removed from Windows SDK for Windows 7

CAPICOM.dll has been removed from the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: BETA and should be considered a deprecated component. You can find information on alternatives to using CAPICOM here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778518(VS.85).aspx. This MSDN article tells how to use the .NET Framework to implement security features for the following:

• Certificate Store Objects
• Digital Signature Objects
• Enveloped Data Objects
• Data Encryption Objects
• Auxiliary Objects

If you need to use CAPICOM.dll, you can download it separately from https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=860EE43A-A843-462F-ABB5-FF88EA5896F6. This download contains the redistributable files for CAPICOM 2.1.0.2 and samples of its use.

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• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
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• Anonymous
  April 01, 2009
  This is really disappointing.  Doesn't Microsoft think about developers who can't use the .NET APIs? I personally developed an updating system for Windows Sidebar Gadgets that downloads a gadget and verifies the digital signature before installing.  To distribute the DLL with every gadget that uses that system would add 1.8Mb to a ~100kb gadget package. I also have a personal build of DropTo->Gadget, a sidebar gadget that packages a folder into a gadget file and then digitally signs it, using CAPICOM. Isn't there any chance Microsoft would change their minds?  I really would have thought as much COM interfaces as possible would be left.  Even if the DLL were distributed with Windows but not registered, I could have the Gadget register the COM before use and unregister it again after use.