Recovering deleted file on windows

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Published on 2010-05-14T20:14:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 20:34 UTC
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I want to write a program to recover recently deleted files on windows 7..

Is there a function in windows API that recover files? If not, how can I begin in that?

EDIT:
Or an open source project for that?

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