This section contains conceptual topics that describe how to use the Windows 7 Packaging APIs.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Getting Started with the Packaging API | The Windows 7 Packaging feature is a set of COM-based API that provides support for accessing, modifying, and saving packages using C and C++. This topic includes the prerequisites and programming information needed to begin using the APIs. |
| Open Packaging Conventions Fundamentals | Introduces the ECMA-376 OpenXML, 1st Edition, Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) concepts that are required for using Packaging APIs. |
| Packages Fundamentals | The topics in this section describe using the Packaging APIs to represent and interact with packages. |
| Parts Fundamentals | The topics in this section describe using the Packaging APIs to represent and interact with parts. |
| Relationships Fundamentals | The topic in this section describes using the Packaging APIs to represent and interact with relationships. |
| Digital Signatures Fundamentals | The topic in this section describes using the Packaging APIs to generate, modify, and validate package signatures. |
| Differences between the Native and Managed APIs | This topic describes the programming differences between the native-code Packaging API, introduced in Windows 7, and its managed-code System.IO.Packaging API counterpart. |
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