The Object Windows Library (OWL) is a C++ object-oriented application framework designed to simplify desktop application development for Windows and (some...
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Windows Template Library (WTL) is a free software, object-oriented C++ template library for Win32 development. WTL was created by Microsoft employee Nenad...
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Visual Component Library (VCL) is a visual component-based object-oriented framework for developing the user interface of Microsoft Windows applications....
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Cryptographic API (CAPICOM) ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Collaboration Data Objects (CDO); Windows Runtime (WinRT) Universal Windows Platform (UWP) DirectShow DirectX...
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Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) is a C++ object-oriented library for developing desktop applications for Windows. MFC was introduced by Microsoft...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Borland C++ (section Borland C++ for MS-DOS, Windows)
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...
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implementations such as DirectX, Windows shell, UMDF, Windows Runtime, and Browser Helper Object. COM enables object use with only knowing its interface;...
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software library Visual Component Library – Object Pascal framework for Windows (VCL) Component Library for Cross Platform (CLX) C standard library – Standard...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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commonly used objects and their mnemonics: *LIB: Library (where everything below, except directories and stream files, is stored; libraries cannot exist...
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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,...
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Active Template Library (ATL), Microsoft SQL Server 7 and MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server); and Inprise Corporation's Object Windows Library (OWL) and Visual...
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The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop...
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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...
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industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold...
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Component Library (VCL) for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) for cross-platform development. Delphi uses the Pascal-based programming language Object Pascal...
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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...
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File Explorer (redirect from Windows NT Explorer)
known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating...
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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...
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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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Graphics Device Interface (redirect from Windows Printing System)
Cairo libraries. In Windows Vista, all Windows applications including GDI and GDI+ applications run in the new compositing engine, Desktop Window Manager...
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Dynamic Data Exchange (redirect from DDE Management Library)
Microsoft Windows and OS/2. DDE allows programs to manipulate objects provided by other programs, and respond to user actions affecting those objects. DDE...
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