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Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces on Windows
The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the foundational application programming interface (API) that allows a computer program to access the features of
Windows_API
Application programming interface
This API is used in the early stages of Windows NT startup process, when other components and APIs are still unavailable. Therefore, a few Windows components
Windows_Native_API
Connection between computers or programs
DirectX for Microsoft Windows EHLLAPI Java APIs ODBC for Microsoft Windows OpenAL cross-platform sound API OpenCL cross-platform API for general-purpose
API
List of main shared-libraries of Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Windows SDK support a collection of shared libraries that software can use to access the Windows API. This
Microsoft Windows library files
Microsoft_Windows_library_files
Project to run Windows on OS/2 formats
run Microsoft Windows programs on OS/2 or convert them to OS/2 native format. It also provides the Odin32 API to compile Win32 (Windows API) programs for
Odin (code conversion software)
Odin_(code_conversion_software)
Platform-agnostic component and application architecture
Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a platform-agnostic component and application architecture first introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in 2012. It
Windows_Runtime
Computer application of Microsoft Windows
component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure
Windows_Task_Scheduler
Graphical user interface software library
or Visual Basic. Windows Forms provides access to native Windows User Interface Common Controls by wrapping the existent Windows API in managed code.
Windows_Forms
C header for accessing the Windows API
<Windows.h> is a source code header file that Microsoft provides for the development of programs that access the Windows API (WinAPI) via C language.
Windows.h
Technical specification for how Windows software should behave over TCP/IP
computing, the Windows Sockets API (WSA), later shortened to Winsock, is an application programming interface (API) that defines how Windows network application
Winsock
Applications usable across all compatible Microsoft Windows devices
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps (formerly named Windows Store apps, Metro-style apps and Modern apps) are applications that are built on the Universal
Universal Windows Platform apps
Universal_Windows_Platform_apps
Compiler toolchain for Windows
targeting the Windows API without requiring a compatibility layer or emulation environment. MinGW was developed to support native Windows development using
MinGW
Computing platform by Microsoft
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is a computing platform created by Microsoft and introduced in Windows 10. The purpose of this platform is to help develop
Universal_Windows_Platform
Cross-platform 3D graphics API and open standard
performance and better image quality across Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Linux. No other graphics API offers the same powerful combination of OS
Vulkan
Collection of multimedia related APIs on Microsoft platforms
September 1995 as the Windows Game SDK. Its DirectDraw component was the Win32 replacement for the DCI and WinG APIs for Windows 3.1. DirectX allowed all
DirectX
Computer operating system
Windows is a proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft. Windows is grouped into families that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry
Microsoft_Windows
Microsoft operating system family
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, originally released for the workstation
Windows_NT
Software
of Windows Installer, the Windows Setup API can be used in Windows 3.x and Windows 9x. The Setup API can do file copy, as well as INI file or Windows Registry
Windows_Installer
Microsoft Win16 API for Unix/Linux
that implements the Windows Win16 API specification. Wabi runs applications developed for Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows for Workgroups, interpreting
Wabi_(software)
Microsoft Windows API
printers. It was superseded by DirectDraw API and later Direct2D API.[citation needed] Windows apps use Windows API to interact with GDI, for such tasks as
Graphics_Device_Interface
Software compiler
Windows versions used a BASIC syntax expanded to include many Windows functions, and the statements could be combined with calls to the Windows API.
PowerBASIC
Windows compatibility software
the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Interface, which was an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as
Wine_(software)
Database for Microsoft Windows
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt
Windows_Registry
Execution model which allows for parallel computing
packages such as pthreads-w32, which implements pthreads on top of existing Windows API. pthreads defines a set of C programming language types, functions and
Pthreads
Software development kit from Microsoft
Windows App SDK (codenamed Project Reunion) is a "framework package" from Microsoft that provides a unified application programming interface (API) and
Windows_App_SDK
Application programming interface for Microsoft Windows
Interface or SAPI is an API developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis within Windows applications. To date, a
Microsoft_Speech_API
Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983, 2 years before it was first released. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical user
Microsoft Windows version history
Microsoft_Windows_version_history
1996 Microsoft operating system version
Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the data server and personal workstation markets
Windows_NT_4.0
Variable-width encoding of Unicode, using one or two 16-bit code units
OS API of all currently supported versions of Microsoft Windows (and including at least Windows CE since Windows CE 5.0 and Windows NT since Windows 2000)
UTF-16
DB Cryptographic API (CAPICOM) ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Collaboration Data Objects (CDO); Windows Runtime (WinRT) Universal Windows Platform (UWP) DirectShow
List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks
List_of_Microsoft_Windows_application_programming_interfaces_and_frameworks
Structure of the operating system
system personality on Windows is the Windows API, which is always present. The emulation subsystem which implements the Windows personality is called
Architecture_of_Windows_NT
Free, open-source, CLI tools for creating Windows-native binaries
Windows API, a Windows-native version of the GNU Project's GNU Debugger, and miscellaneous utilities. Mingw-w64 can be run natively on Microsoft Windows, cross-hosted
Mingw-w64
Windows API for cryptography
built-in component in Windows 2000 and later versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. In theory, the Data Protection API can enable symmetric encryption
Data_Protection_API
Software library
it may also be used to avoid platform-specific APIs. GLFW is used in programs that require a window, due to OpenGL not providing any mechanisms for creating
GLFW
1993 Microsoft operating system version
Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993. It marked the company's
Windows_NT_3.1
Open source API for video acceleration
Unix multi-platform equivalent of Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API, but today the API is no longer limited to Intel-specific hardware
Video_Acceleration_API
Proposed software compatibility standard
Application Programming Interface for Windows (APIW) Standard is a specification of the Microsoft Windows 3.1 API drafted by Willows Software. It is the
Application Programming Interface for Windows
Application_Programming_Interface_for_Windows
GUI for Windows console applications
Windows Console is a GUI application for running console applications in Windows. Windows Console is used for running text-based programs such as operating
Windows_Console
around the Windows API. The Windows Template Library (WTL), a template-based extension to ATL and a replacement of MFC The Object Windows Library (OWL)
List_of_widget_toolkits
Obsolete Microsoft Windows audio APIs
was the first universal and standardized Windows audio API. Wave sound events played in Windows (up to Windows XP) and MIDI I/O use MME. The devices listed
Windows legacy audio components
Windows_legacy_audio_components
Overview on Unicode implementation in Microsoft Windows
discontinued) Windows CE, UTF-16 was used almost exclusively, with the 'A' API mostly missing. A limited set of ANSI API is available in Windows CE 5.0, for
Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows
2006 Microsoft operating system version
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years
Windows_Vista
Application programming interface
the data. The Crypto API was first introduced in Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows NT 4.0 and enhanced in subsequent versions. CryptoAPI supports both public-key
Microsoft_CryptoAPI
Utility software
is included in the Windows Driver Kit v10. In Windows 7, Microsoft introduced the concept of Windows API-sets, a form of DLL redirection. Dependency Walker
Dependency_Walker
Interpreted programming language
programming languages such as Visual Basic, C++, or Delphi, as they use Windows API. Each syntax command occupies one line and has a plain English name that
Visual_DialogScript
and Windows Live Dev) is a collection of APIs and common controls that allow developers to have a deeper control and offers access to the core Windows Live
Live_Connect
Waiting cursor used on Windows
display on programs using the Windows API. From Windows 1.0 to Windows XP, it was represented by an hourglass. Windows Vista introduced a new, animated
Windows_wait_cursor
Memory debugger
Library, Windows API and calls to COM objects. By monitoring memory allocations and releases, it can detect memory leaks and overruns. Monitoring API and COM
BoundsChecker
1987 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 2.0 is a major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems developed by Microsoft. It was released to
Windows_2.0
Software that intercepts and modifies behavior
OpenTransport "stack", and then re-implemented as an API shim on top of this new library. The Microsoft Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) uses the
Shim_(computing)
Windows character set for Latin alphabet
Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft
Windows-1252
Free software multimedia library
codebase with a different, not backwards-compatible API. It replaces several parts of the 1.2 API with more general support for multiple input and output
Simple_DirectMedia_Layer
Computer software development kit
programming interface (API). It handles user interface elements by using native controls provided by native APIs, such as Windows API in Windows, GTK+ in Linux
IUP_(software)
Linux kernel fork for Windows compatibility
functions provided by kernel. Windows native API. Microsoft did not open their native API, but "Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference" and other materials
Longene
Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most
Technical features new to Windows Vista
Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista
Microsoft Windows API
Interface (TAPI) is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running Microsoft Windows to use telephone services
Telephony Application Programming Interface
Telephony_Application_Programming_Interface
Windows application programming interface
Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) is a component of Windows API that performs security-related operations such as authentication. SSPI functions
Security Support Provider Interface
Security_Support_Provider_Interface
1992 Microsoft operating system version
Modular Windows. In November 1993, Windows 3.11 was released as a minor update, while Windows 3.2 was released as a Simplified Chinese version of Windows 3
Windows_3.1
Configuration file format
in 16-bit Microsoft Windows platforms up through Windows 3.1x. Starting with Windows 95 Microsoft favored the use of the Windows Registry and began to
INI_file
Components of Windows NT providing compatibility with applications
for the platform in question. For example, Windows NT 4.0 has three environment subsystems: Win32 (Windows API), OS/2, and POSIX, the latter of which corresponding
Environment_subsystem
Computer programming identifier naming convention
Charles Petzold in the book Programming Windows, the original (and for many readers, the definitive) book on Windows API programming. Thus, many commonly seen
Hungarian_notation
2021 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 11 is the current major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021, as the successor to Windows 10 (2015)
Windows_11
Windows OS object-oriented library
compiler for use with 16-bit versions of Windows as an extremely thin object-oriented C++ wrapper for the Windows API. C++ was just beginning to replace C
Microsoft Foundation Class Library
Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Library
Free incomplete Windows NT-like operating system
for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Microsoft Windows. ReactOS has been noted as a potential open-source drop-in replacement for Windows and
ReactOS
API used in Microsoft DirectX for 3D rendering
Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics
Direct3D
Microsoft's implementation of the shared library concept in Windows and OS/2
device drivers also allowed the Windows shell to load different Windows programs, and for these programs to invoke API calls from the shared USER and GDI
Dynamic-link_library
Type of computer input/output processing
the Windows API. It was introduced as an extension to the API in Windows NT. Utilizing overlapped I/O requires passing an OVERLAPPED structure to API functions
Overlapped_I/O
Text that identifies an item in a computer file system
In the Windows API, file I/O functions automatically convert / into \ (except when using the \\?\ prefix). Paths using standard Windows APIs (dating
Path_(computing)
2012 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available
Windows_8
Windows 3.x graphics API
performance on Windows 3.x operating systems. It was initially positioned as a way to help game developers more easily port MS-DOS games to Windows. WinG was
WinG
Game programming library
including Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi Android and HTML5 Support for OpenGL 1.1, 2.1, 3.3, 4.3 and OpenGL ES 2.0, 3.0 as graphic API Image, textures
Raylib
User interface API, part of Windows Runtime
Windows UI Library (WinUI codenamed "Jupiter", and also known as UWP XAML and WinRT XAML) is a user interface API that is part of the Windows Runtime
Windows_UI_Library
Linux kernel APIs and ABIs
services Windows API – Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces on Windows windows.h – C header for accessing the Windows API Wine (software) –
Linux_kernel_interfaces
it either. The installation of software (both Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Windows API apps) is only possible through the Microsoft Store, and
Windows_10_editions
Family of IEEE standards for compatibility between operating systems
that map POSIX APIs to call their Windows API counterparts. Microsoft POSIX subsystem An optional Windows subsystem included in Windows NT-based operating
POSIX
Open source terminal emulator
POSIX API provided by Cygwin is used to communicate with processes running within mintty, while its user interface is implemented using the Windows API. The
Mintty
Software development kit by Microsoft
Windows SDK (formerly known as Microsoft Windows SDK, Microsoft Win32 SDK, and Platform SDK) is a software development kit (SDK) from Microsoft that contains
Windows_SDK
Read-only file data
contain resources include: EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, SYS and MUI files. The Windows API provides a computer program access to resources. Each resource has a
Resource_(Windows)
Application programming interface
Automation API was released as a part of .NET Framework 3.0. The native UI Automation API (provider) is included as part of the Windows Vista and Windows Server
Microsoft_UI_Automation
API of the MS-DOS operating system
the MS-DOS 7.1 API, though Windows Me reports itself as MS-DOS 8.0. Windows NT and the systems based on it (e.g. Windows XP and Windows Vista) are not
DOS_API
1999 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the server and business markets. It is the direct
Windows_2000
Application programming interface
application programming interface (API) for user interface accessibility. MSAA was introduced as a platform add-on to Microsoft Windows 95 in 1997. MSAA is designed
Microsoft Active Accessibility
Microsoft_Active_Accessibility
2013 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system based on Windows 8 developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013
Windows_8.1
Type of operating system kernel
system personality on Windows is the Windows API, which is always present. The emulation subsystem which implements the Windows personality is called
Hybrid_kernel
Patterns used in computer programming
Internally this is done using three extra wildcard characters, <>". On the Windows API end, the glob() equivalent is FindFirstFile(), and fnmatch() corresponds
Glob_(programming)
Microsoft Windows programming interface
The Text Object Model (TOM) is a Microsoft Windows API that provides developers with object-based rich text manipulation interfaces. It is implemented
Text_Object_Model
Mechanism by which a computer program can load a library (or other binary) into memory
programming language "dl" library. The Windows operating system provides dynamic loading through the Windows API. Loading the library is accomplished with
Dynamic_loading
Operating system from IBM
differences in API. OS/2 was announced when Windows 2.0 was near completion, and the Windows API already defined. IBM requested that this API be significantly
OS/2
2009 Microsoft operating system version
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became
Windows_7
ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding of Unicode
advantage of UTF-16 is that the Windows API required it for access to all Unicode characters (UTF-8 was not fully supported in Windows until May 2019). This caused
UTF-8
2001 Microsoft operating system version
Windows XP (stylized as Windowsxp) is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001,
Windows_XP
Input/output method in computing
in POSIX 1003.1-2001 and the Single UNIX Specification version 2. The Windows API has analogous functions ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather; however
Vectored_I/O
Simple text editor included with Microsoft Windows
Windows Notepad (commonly known simply as Notepad) is a simple text editor for Windows; it creates and edits plain text documents. It was first released
Windows_Notepad
1995 Microsoft operating system version
Windows NT 3.51 is the third major release of the Windows NT operating system, developed by Microsoft for the data server and personal workstation markets
Windows_NT_3.51
Customization of the user interface of Windows XP
for Windows XP and later. They are designed by Microsoft and are compatible with all Windows XP editions except for the Starter edition. Since Windows XP
Windows_XP_visual_styles
Implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6
building user-defined functions (UDFs), automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries (DLLs)
Visual_Basic_for_Applications
2024 operating system version
Porting Toolkit, a Windows API compatibility layer derived from Wine and CrossOver, allowing developers to more easily port Windows games to macOS. Apple
MacOS_Sequoia
1994 Microsoft operating system version
based on the AT&T UNIX System V "STREAMS" API found in Windows NT 3.1. TCP/IP and IPX/SPX stacks in Windows NT 3.5 are rewritten. NetBIOS over TCP/IP
Windows_NT_3.5
American software company
idea, Wind/U, was an implementation of the Windows API (application programming interface) on non-Windows operating systems (such as UNIX). In March 2007
Bristol_Technology
Python module for writing video games
renpytom/rapt-pygame-example". GitHub. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019. "API — Pygame Subset for Android". Archived from the original on 19 October 2014
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