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The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the foundational application programming interface (API) that allows a computer program to access the features of...28 KB (3,279 words) - 22:23, 28 May 2025- 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...6 KB (679 words) - 21:56, 7 January 2025
- 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...14 KB (1,845 words) - 13:39, 29 November 2024
or Visual Basic. Windows Forms provides access to native Windows User Interface Common Controls by wrapping the existent Windows API in managed code....18 KB (1,716 words) - 05:01, 5 June 2025- An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering...47 KB (5,224 words) - 16:46, 27 May 2025
- Microsoft Windows platform specific Cryptographic Application Programming Interface (also known variously as CryptoAPI, Microsoft Cryptography API, MS-CAPI...6 KB (617 words) - 00:38, 2 December 2024
- 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...61 KB (5,180 words) - 12:05, 9 May 2025
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...21 KB (2,068 words) - 00:13, 25 April 2025- Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Windows SDK support a collection of shared libraries that software can use to access the Windows API. This...22 KB (2,539 words) - 21:18, 13 April 2025
- Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a platform-agnostic component and application architecture first introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in 2012. It...30 KB (3,512 words) - 04:30, 25 May 2025
- 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...6 KB (555 words) - 02:37, 6 December 2024
- 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...172 KB (16,919 words) - 15:35, 5 June 2025
- Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most...95 KB (10,952 words) - 11:00, 25 March 2025
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps (formerly named Windows Store apps, Metro-style apps and Modern apps) are applications that can be used across all...26 KB (2,543 words) - 22:52, 24 April 2025- Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows...63 KB (5,212 words) - 23:17, 27 May 2025
- component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure...21 KB (2,270 words) - 03:28, 6 March 2024
- Unix multi-platform equivalent of Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API, but today the API is no longer limited to Intel-specific hardware...14 KB (1,254 words) - 08:21, 3 January 2025
- Windows 11 is a version of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021, as the successor to Windows 10 (2015). It is available...130 KB (10,854 words) - 14:39, 5 June 2025
- Windows IoT, short for Windows Internet of Things and formerly known as Windows Embedded, is a family of operating systems from Microsoft designed for...25 KB (2,152 words) - 17:17, 15 May 2025
- 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...20 KB (2,464 words) - 00:53, 20 February 2025
- Building a Platform: Providing APIs (2013) by Aaron Hillel Swartz 2843568Building a Platform: Providing APIs2013Aaron Hillel Swartz The other week I made
- think it matters much at this point which API one chooses. More or less, you have feature parity between both APIs, both have made a handful of design mistakes
- who is interested in programming for the Windows platform. It starts at the lowest level, with the Win32 API (C and VB Classic) and then goes over to