I recently moved some of my software projects to .NET 5. I use the Microsoft WindowsAPICodePack to work with the Windows Shell, but this library is getting old and does not seem to be maintained anymore. Also, it's compiled for .NET Framework 4.7 or 4.8 and might be incompatible with .NET 5. So what is the 'proper' (as in best, modern) way to work with the Windows Shell from a .NET 5 app. For example, I use the old API code pack to get a user's libraries, get file icons etc. I noticed there is the namespace Windows.Storage which seems to have some or maybe all of this functionality, but it seems to be more targeted to UWP (maybe that doesn't matter much for a .NET 5 project?). Or do I need to look into WinRT? Any ideas?
The package WinCopies.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell was updated to 2.1.0, which brings .Net Core 3.1 and .Net 5.0 support:
So add the package
<PackageReference Include="WinCopies.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell" Version="2.1.0" />
and target your app as net5 and use the API like you did with the original package from Microsoft.