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Will Windows 8 support the win inet api's?

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I am trying to do some advanced planning in support of windows 8. I have a test program that uses wininet to reach out to a web service endpoint. It works fine in a windows 7 and in a windows 7 embedded environment. In the windows 8 developer preview, the InternetOpen call fails with an error 87 (INVALID_PARAMETER). Does anyone know if the wininet libarary will be fully supported in windows 8 and windows 8 embedded environments? Have any of the parameters really changed?

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:04 PM

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WinInet is not supported for Metro style apps. See Win32 and COM for Metro style apps for the list of available Win32 API.

It should be supported for Desktop apps. Please post in the Windows Desktop Development forums for help on that.

--Rob
- Edited by Rob Caplan [MSFT]Microsoft employee, Moderator Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:19 PM fixed links
- Proposed as answer by Jesse Jiang Thursday, March 1, 2012 5:58 AM
- Marked as answer by Jesse Jiang Monday, March 5, 2012 8:25 AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:17 PM

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