List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks

The following is a list of Microsoft APIs and frameworks.

APIs

Current Component Model Component Object Model (COM) Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) COM+ Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), including: OLE DB Cryptographic API (CAPICOM) ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Collaboration Data Objects (CDO); Windows Runtime (WinRT) Universal Windows Platform (UWP) DirectShow DirectX Direct2D Direct3D DirectDraw DirectInput DirectMusic DirectPlay DirectSetup DirectSound DirectWrite XACT (Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool) XAudio 2 Media Foundation (Windows Vista / Windows 7) Interface Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and GDI+ Application Programming Interface (API) Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) Remote Application Programming Interface (RAPI) Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) Extensible Storage Engine (Jet Blue) Object linking and embedding (OLE) OLE Automation Uniscribe (see Template:Microsoft APIs section: Software Factories) Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Winsock Win32 console Windows API (current versions: Win32; Win64)

Deprecated Active Scripting ActiveX Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server Dynamic Data Exchange Older data access technologies Jet Database Engine Data object Jet Data Access Objects Remote Data Objects (RDO) Remote Data Services (RDS) Setup API Windows API (old versions: Win16; Win32s) XNA libraries for cross-platform Xbox 360/Windows development

Frameworks

.NET Framework Remoting, Assemblies, Metadata Common Language Runtime, Common Type System, Global Assembly Cache, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Windows Forms ADO.NET, ASP.NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Windows CardSpace (WCS) Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Windows PowerShell Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Text Services Framework Windows Driver Model Windows Driver Foundation

Libraries Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) Active Template Library (ATL) Framework Class Library (FCL) Object Windows Library (OWL) Standard Template Library (STL) Visual Component Library (VCL) Windows Template Library (WTL) Windows UI Library (WinUI) Text Object Model (TOM)

See also List of Microsoft topics

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