Windows API List

The following is a list of the reference content for the Windows application programming interface (API).

• Active Directory Domain Services
• Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)
• Application Recovery and Restart
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Background Intelligent Transfer Services (BITS)
• Backup
• Bitmaps
• Bluetooth
• Brushes
• Buttons
• Carets
• Certificate Enrollment
• Clipboard
• COM
• COM+
• Combo Boxes
• Common Dialog Boxes
• Consoles
• Controls
• Core Audio
• Cryptography
• Cryptographic Next Generation (CNG)
• Cursors
• Debugging
• Desktop Window Manager (DWM)
• Device Contexts
• Device Management
• Dialog Boxes
• Directories
• Direct2D
• DirectShow
• DirectWrite
• DirectX
• Disk Management
• Distributed File System (DFS)
• Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
• Dynamic Data Exchange Management (DDEML)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Dynamic-Link Libraries (DLLs)
• Edit Controls
• Enhanced Storage
• Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
• Extensible Authentication Protocol Host (EAPHost)
• Error Handling
• Event Logging
• Event Tracing
• Failover Clusters
• Fax Service
• File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
• Files and I/O
• Filled Shapes
• Fonts and Text
• Function Discovery
• Globalization Services
• Graphics Device Interface (GDI)
• GDI+
• Group Policy
• Hardware Counter Profiling (HCP)
• Header Controls
• Hooks
• HTTP Server
• Icons
• Image Mastering API (IMAPI)
• IP Helper
• iSCSI Discovery Library API
• Kernel Transaction Manager (KTM)
• Keyboard Accelerators
• Keyboard Input
• Location
• List Boxes
• List-View Controls
• Mailslots
• Memory Management
• Menus
• Message Queuing (MSMQ)
• Messages and Message Queues
• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 2.0
• Microsoft Media Foundation
• Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
• Mobile Broadband
• Monitor Configuration
• Mouse Input
• Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
• Multiple Display Monitors
• National Language Support (NLS)
• Native Wifi
• Network Access Protection (NAP)
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Network Diagnostics Framework (NDF)
• Network List Manager (NLM)
• Network Management
• Network Policy Server Extensions (NPS)
• OpenGL
• Packaging
• Painting and Drawing
• Parental Controls
• Peer-to-Peer
• Performance Counters
• Performance Logs and Alerts (PLA)
• Picture Acquisition
• Pipes
• Power Management
• Print Spooler
• Processes
• Progress Bars
• Property Sheets
• PSAPI
• Quality of Service (QOS)
• Routing and Remote Access Service (RAS)
• Raw Input
• Registry
• Remote Desktop Services
• Remote Differential Compression (RDC)
• Restart Manager
• Rich Edit Controls
• Scroll Bars
• Sensors
• Services
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Software Licensing
• Static Controls
• Strings
• Synchronization
• System Event Notification Service (SENS)
• System Restore
• System Shutdown
• Telephony Application Programming Interfaces (TAPI)
• Task Scheduler
• Text Services Framework
• Threads
• Time
• Tool Help
• Toolbars
• Tooltips
• Trackbars
• Tree-View Controls
• Unicode
• UPnP
• Virtual Disk Service (VDS)
• Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
• Volume Management
• Volume Shadow Copy
• WebDAV
• Window Stations
• Windows
• Windows Accessibility
• Windows Animation Manager
• Windows Color System
• Windows Connect Now
• Windows Deployment Services
• Windows Desktop Sharing
• Windows Error Reporting (WER)
• Windows Filtering Platform
• Windows Firewall
• Windows Genuine Advantage
• Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP)
• Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
• Windows Imaging Component (WIC)
• Windows Installer
• Windows Internet (WinINet)
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Windows Media Audio and Video Codec and DSP
• Windows Media Center
• Windows Media Format
• Windows Media Player
• Windows Media Services
• Windows Multimedia
• Windows Networking (WNet)
• Windows Portable Devices
• Windows Property System
• Windows Remote Management (WinRM)
• Windows Ribbon
• Windows RSS Platform
• Windows Search
• Windows Server Backup
• Windows Shell
• Windows Sidebar
• Windows SideShow
• Windows Sockets (Winsock)
• Windows Touch
• Windows Web Services

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