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List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks

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The following is a list of Microsoft APIs and frameworks.

Contents

Current

  • Component Model
  • ActiveX
  • Component Object Model (COM)
  • Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
  • COM+
  • Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), including: OLE DB
  • Cryptographic API (CAPICOM)
  • ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
  • Collaboration Data Objects (CDO);
  • DirectShow
  • DirectX
  • Direct2D
  • Direct3D
  • DirectDraw
  • DirectInput
  • DirectMusic
  • DirectPlay
  • DirectSetup
  • DirectSound
  • DirectWrite
  • XACT (Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool)
  • XAudio 2
  • Media Foundation (Windows Vista / Windows 7)
  • Interface
  • Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and GDI+
  • Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)
  • Remote Application Programming Interface (RAPI)
  • Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI)
  • Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI)
  • Extensible Storage Engine (Jet Blue)
  • Object linking and embedding (OLE)
  • OLE Automation
  • Uniscribe (see Template:Microsoft APIs section: Software Factories)
  • Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
  • Winsock
  • Win32 console
  • Windows API's current versions: Win32, Win64

    • Deprecated

  • Active Scripting
  • Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server
  • Dynamic Data Exchange
  • Older data access technologies
  • Microsoft Jet Database Engine
  • Data object
  • Jet Data Access Objects
  • Remote Data Objects (RDO)
  • Remote Data Services (RDS)
  • Setup API
  • Windows API's old versions: Win16, Win32s
  • XNA libraries for cross platform Xbox 360/Windows development

    • Frameworks

  • .NET Framework
  • Remoting, Assemblies, Metadata
  • Common Language Runtime, Common Type System, Global Assembly Cache, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Windows Forms
  • ADO.NET, ASP.NET
  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
  • Windows CardSpace (WCS)
  • Windows PowerShell
  • Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
  • Text Services Framework
  • Windows Driver Model
  • Windows Driver Foundation

    • Libraries

  • Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
  • Active Template Library (ATL)
  • Framework Class Library (FCL)
  • Object Windows Library (OWL)
  • Standard Template Library (STL)
  • Visual Component Library (VCL)
  • Windows Template Library (WTL)
  • Text Object Model (TOM)

    • References

    List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks Wikipedia
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