List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces
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The following is a list of Microsoft APIs.
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[edit] Application programming interfaces
[edit] Modern
- .NET Framework, including: Remoting, Assemblies, Metadata, Common Language Runtime, Common Type System, Global Assembly Cache, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Windows Forms, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows CardSpace, Windows Workflow Foundation
- Active Scripting
- Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
- Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- Cryptographic Application Programming Interface
- DirectShow
- DirectX, including: Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectInput, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSetup, and DirectSound
- Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and GDI+
- Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), including: ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and OLE DB.
- Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)
- Object linking and embedding (OLE), OLE Automation, ActiveX
- Remote Application Programming Interface (RAPI)
- Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI)
- Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI)
- Uniscribe
- Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Winsock
[edit] Deprecated
- Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server
- Dynamic Data Exchange
- Older data access technologies: Microsoft Jet Database Engine, Data Access Objects (DAO), Remote Data Objects (RDO), Remote Data Services (RDS)
- Setup API
