The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the foundational application programming interface (API) that allows a computer program to access the features of...
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The Native API is a lightweight application programming interface (API) used by Windows NT's kernel and user mode applications. This API is used in the...
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DirectX for Microsoft Windows EHLLAPI Java APIs ODBC for Microsoft Windows OpenAL cross-platform sound API OpenCL cross-platform API for general-purpose...
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or Visual Basic. Windows Forms provides access to native Windows User Interface Common Controls by wrapping the existent Windows API in managed code....
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component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure...
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Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a platform-agnostic component and application architecture first introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in 2012. It...
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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...
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the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system...
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Vulkan (redirect from Vulkan API)
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...
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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...
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Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows...
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Winsock (redirect from Windows Socket API)
computing, the Windows Sockets API (WSA), later shortened to Winsock, is an application programming interface (API) that defines how Windows network application...
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Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps (formerly named Windows Store apps, Metro-style apps and Modern apps) are applications that can be used across all...
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2004 of Windows 10, and the dll only serves as a stub for backwards compatibility. NTDLL.DLL exports the Windows Native API. The Native API is the interface...
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MinGW (redirect from Minimalist GNU for Windows)
("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW...
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The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt...
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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...
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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...
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Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor...
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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...
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The Windows versions use a BASIC syntax expanded to include many Windows functions, and the statements can be combined with calls to the Windows API. The...
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Unix multi-platform equivalent of Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API, but today the API is no longer limited to Intel-specific hardware...
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Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021. It succeeded Windows 10 (2015), and is...
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UTF-16 (redirect from Windows-1200)
personal and place names. UTF-16 is used by systems such as the Microsoft Windows API, the Java programming language and JavaScript/ECMAScript. It is also...
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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...
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Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to...
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Windows Console is the infrastructure for console applications in Microsoft Windows. An instance of a Windows Console has a screen buffer and an input...
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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...
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Windows Live Mesh (formerly known as Windows Live FolderShare, Live Mesh, and Windows Live Sync) is a discontinued free-to-use Internet-based file synchronization...
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Graphics Device Interface (redirect from Windows Printing System)
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...
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