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Hi Ray,

I wouldn't call it missed, but rather I believe that is was conciously not a
goal to include the entire Win32 API.  If Microsoft was ever to produce a
product, they had to make a cut somewhere on what was available via the .NET
Framework class libraries.  With over 8000 types, I believe the effort was
amazing.  Also, consider the fact that the Win32 API has had several years
to grow over its lifetime and the amount of functionality they were able to
put into .NET is even more impressive.  I'm not sure what defined the cutoff
on what Win32 functionality is wrapped by .NET and what isn't, but I'm sure
they made their best effort to include those things that people wanted the
most.  Fortunately, they did have the foresight to give us hooks into the OS
and legacy systems via P/Invoke, COM Interop, and IJW (C++) so that we could
do some of the other things we need.

If you look at any of the publicly available material on the next version of
Windows, codename Longhorn, it appears that the entire API will be managed,
with backwards compatibility for MS-DOS, Win16 and Win32.  So, my thinking
is that what isn't included in .NET today will be part of the next version
of Windows.

Joe
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"Ray" <someone@someisp.net> wrote in message
news:419ceff0$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Thanks Joe
>
> Another thing missed off from .NET eh!
>
> Ray
>
> "Joe Mayo" <jmayo@nospam.mayosoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:419c0335$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Hi Ray,
> >
> > You'll have to use P/Invoke.  I believe the Win32 API is ExitWindowsEx.
> >
> > Joe
> > -- 
> > http://www.csharp-station.com
> >
> > "Ray" <someone@someisp.net> wrote in message
> > news:419b5260@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I want to be able to reboot, or shutdown, the host machine from within
my
> >> program. Can't find anything in the Help that gives a clue on how to do
> >> this.
> >>
> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction.
> >>
> >> Ray
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>