1. Windows 7 Bijoy Singhal Developer Evangelist Microsoft India Under the hood features for developers

2. Targeting the platform Different approaches Windows 7 Managed APIs.NET BCL, Windows API code pack etc Managed APIs.NET BCL, Windows API code pack etc Native APIs Platform SDK, DirectX etc Native APIs Platform SDK, DirectX etc Your Managed Application Your Native Application Mixed Mode Applications Mixed Mode Applications

3. What’s more… Trigger Services User Mode Scheduling Reliability Access Monitor Virtual Disk APIs Powershell High DPI Windows Display Driver Model Direct2D for drawing 2D graphics. DirectWrite for arranging and rendering text.

4. What’s more… Windows Imaging Component for processing and displaying images. Direct3D® 10 for drawing 3D graphics. Direct3D 11 for drawing 3D graphics, and providing access to next-generation GPU technologies, such as tessellation, limited support for texture streaming, and general purpose computing. DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) for managing devices and GPU resources, and providing interoperability between DirectX and GDI. BranchCache APIs

5. Some Background… P/Invoke [DllImport] Accessing the Native APIs Windows Services Doing work in the background

6. DEMO USB Copy

7. ON (trigger) –USB arrival ( SERVICE_TRIGGER_TYPE_DEVICE_INTERFACE_ARRIVAL ) –IP Address ( SERVICE_TRIGGER_TYPE_IP_ADDRESS_AVAILABILITY ) –Custom ( SERVICE_TRIGGER_TYPE_CUSTOM ) –FireWall ( SERVICE_TRIGGER_TYPE_FIREWALL_PORT_EVENT ) DO (Action) –Start( SERVICE_TRIGGER_ACTION_SERVICE_START ) –Stop( SERVICE_TRIGGER_ACTION_SERVICE_STOP )

8. Virtual Disk APIs

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