HomeGroup Sample

Demonstrates how to determine HomeGroup membership status, enumerate top-level items in the HomeGroup Shell folder, and launch the HomeGroup Sharing Wizard.

This topic contains the following sections.

• Requirements
• Downloading the Sample
• Building the Sample
• Running the Sample
• Related topics

Requirements

Downloading the Sample

Building the Sample

To build the sample from the command prompt:

1. Open the command prompt window and navigate to the HomeGroup project directory.
2. Enter msbuild HomeGroup.sln.

To build the sample using Microsoft Visual Studio (preferred):

1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the HomeGroup project directory.
2. Double-click the icon for the HomeGroup.sln file to open the project in Visual Studio.
3. From the Build menu, select Build Solution.

Running the Sample

1. Navigate to the directory that contains the new executable, using the command prompt or Windows Explorer.
2. At the command line, enter HomeGroup.exe. Alternatively, from Windows Explorer double-click the icon for HomeGroup.exe.

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