Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK

I downloaded and installed the latest version of the Media Center SDK just now, and was a bit surprised to see that WPF apps are now officially deprecated as a supported way of extending Windows Media Center on Vista. There’s no big announcement around this so far, it’s almost just a footnote in the “What’s

How to parse "special" .lnk files, aka. MSI shortcuts aka. Windows Installer advertised shortcuts using C#

[Update 2012-02-04: Jonathan pointed out a few additional things in the comments.] [Update 2010-01-20: It looks like the calls to MsiGetShortcutTarget() and MsiGetComponentPath() only work correctly on Windows 7 if you make them from a thread that has STA apartment state. So if you do a lengthy operation like iterating through the entire Start menu