Maintained at https://github.com/sensics/DeviceMetadataTools
Assemblies and command-line tools to interact with Microsoft "Device Metadata" packages. The assemblies and tools are written in C# and currently target the .NET 4 Client Profile, with the projects/solution created in Visual Studio 2015.
Includes assemblies for loading files from .cab files (which is secretly what those device metadata packages are internally), using one of two different backends:
Shell32- shell functions p/invoked from Windows, used by defaultDTF- more featureful in theory, but not used by default due to licensing: uses the Microsoft/OuterCurve/WiX "Deployment Tools Foundation" which is provided under the Microsoft Reciprocal License (MS-RL)
This project: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Note: The Sensics.CabTools.DTFCabFile assembly (not built by default) uses the Microsoft.Deployment.Compression and Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab assemblies, which are part of MS DTF, part of the WiX toolkit, and licensed under the MS-RL. Building/using that assembly may impose additional conditions beyond those of the Apache License, Version 2.0, which are your responsibility to comply with - consult a lawyer if you have questions.