DirectUser API documentation

Question

Will the DirectUser API (in duser.dll) be documented with Windows Vista?

At first, I thought of it as a "stopgap" API--used only a few places in XP, and something that would be going away with the introduction of Avalon. However it seems that Vista isn't using Avalon for any of its own UI but is making even more pervasive use of DirectUser.  From the task dialog, to extensive use in control panel, DirectUser is something that Windows itself is making heavy use of, and it would be great for those of us who develop unmanaged apps to be able to use it too.

Lastly, I noticed that DirectUser is used to implement the tabs in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP.  I'm not a lawyer, but I would say that IE making use of this API requires it to be documented according to the antitrust consent decree.

Answer 1

Internet Explorer's use of DUSER.DLL is only temporary. The final version of Internet Explorer will not use it.

Answer 2

So, I'm guessing the answer to the question is "no".