The Object Windows Library (OWL) is a C++ object-oriented application framework designed to simplify desktop application development for Windows and (some...

Windows Template Library (WTL) is a free software, object-oriented C++ template library for Win32 development. WTL was created by Microsoft employee Nenad...

Visual Component Library (VCL) is a visual component-based object-oriented framework for developing the user interface of Microsoft Windows applications....

of OS/2. In 1996, Object REXX was released as part of the OS/2 Warp 4 operating system. In 1997, versions for Windows 95, Windows NT and Linux followed...

provides an overview of the core libraries that are included with every modern Windows installation, on top of which most Windows applications are built. HAL...

Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) is a C++ object-oriented library for developing desktop applications for Windows. MFC was introduced by Microsoft...

Microsoft Windows. It was the successor to Turbo C++ and included a better debugger, the Turbo Debugger, which was written in protected mode DOS. Object Windows...

GDI+. Of note, Windows 8 provides the Windows API and the WinRT API, which is implemented in C++ and is object-oriented by design. Windows.pas is a Delphi...

implementations such as DirectX, Windows shell, UMDF, Windows Runtime, and Browser Helper Object. COM enables object use with only knowing its interface;...

software library Visual Component Library – Object Pascal framework for Windows (VCL) Component Library for Cross Platform (CLX) C standard library – Standard...

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 syntax...

to the extreme with the Component Object Model, the underpinnings of ActiveX. In Windows 1.x, 2.x and 3.x, all Windows applications shared the same address...

Cryptographic API (CAPICOM) ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Collaboration Data Objects (CDO); Windows Runtime (WinRT) Universal Windows Platform (UWP) DirectShow DirectX...

shared library or shared object is a computer file that contains executable code designed to be used by multiple computer programs or other libraries at runtime...

Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a platform-agnostic component and application architecture first introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in 2012. It...

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), Borland's...

be packaged in different object file formats. An object file may also work like a shared library. The metadata that object files may include can be used...

commonly used objects and their mnemonics: *LIB: Library (where everything below, except directories and stream files, is stored; libraries cannot exist...

The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop...

implemented on top of it and an object-oriented organisation. The primary operating system personality on Windows is the Windows API, which is always present...

Active Template Library (ATL), Microsoft SQL Server 7 and MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server); and Inprise Corporation's Object Windows Library (OWL) and Visual...

The System Object Model (SOM) is an object-oriented shared library technology developed by IBM that supports defining an interface to an object so that its...

Component Library (VCL) for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) for cross-platform development. Delphi uses the Pascal-based programming language Object Pascal...

Symantec then developed the Think Class Library (TCL), based on MacApp concepts, which could be called from both Object Pascal and THINK C. The Think suite...

the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system...

version includes an IDE supporting Windows 95 and NT 3.51, and can compile 16-bit software. It includes ObjectWindows Library 5.0, Borland Database Engine,...

known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating...

of the classic TP user interface. The support for Windows programs required the Object Windows Library (OWL), similar but not identical to that for the...

The Sound Object (SndObj) Library is a C++ object-oriented programming library for music and audio development. It is composed of 100+ classes for signal...

program. Historically, libraries could only be static. Static libraries are either merged with other static libraries and object files during building/linking...