APIs in the Desktop Window Manager

posted by  techgeek (12)  16 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

For the most part, the Vista Desktop Window Manager is an end-user feature.  However, because it so fundamentally changes the game of how the desktop gets composed, there was both the opportunity and the requirement to introduce a relatively small number of APIs that impact how the DWM operates, and allows the programmer to take advantage of DWM features.  This post will discuss the functionality and APIs that we expose at a fairly high level, and reference MSDN documentation for drilling further in.

The DWM APIs are housed in dwmapi.dll, with declarations in dwmapi.h.