List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks

The following is a list of Microsoft APIs and frameworks.

Contents 1 APIs 1.1 Current 1.2 Deprecated 2 Frameworks 2.1 Current 2.2 Deprecated 3 See also

APIs

Current

• Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
• Component Object Model (COM)
  • ActiveX
  • ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
  • Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
• Cryptographic Application Programming Interface
• DirectShow
• DirectX
  • Direct3D
  • DirectDraw
  • DirectInput
  • DirectMusic
  • DirectPlay
  • DirectSetup
  • DirectSound
• Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and GDI+
• Extensible Storage Engine (Jet Blue)
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), including: OLE DB
• Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)
• Object linking and embedding (OLE)
  • OLE Automation
• Remote Application Programming Interface (RAPI)
• Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI)
• Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI)
• Uniscribe
• Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Winsock
• Win32 console
• Windows API's current versions: Win32, Win64

Deprecated

• Active Scripting
• Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server
• Dynamic Data Exchange
• Older data access technologies
  • Microsoft Jet Database Engine
  • Data Access Objects (DAO)
  • Remote Data Objects (RDO)
  • Remote Data Services (RDS)
• Setup API
• Windows API's old versions: Win16, Win32s

Frameworks

Current

• Customer Care Framework
• .NET Framework, including: Remoting, Assemblies, Metadata, Common Language Runtime, Common Type System, Global Assembly Cache, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Windows Forms, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows CardSpace, Microsoft Management Console, Windows PowerShell, Windows Workflow Foundation

Deprecated

• Microsoft Foundation Class Library

See also

• List of Microsoft topics

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