Microsoft Foundation Class Library

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Microsoft Foundation Class Library

Developer	Microsoft
Release	1992;34 years ago (1992)
↑ "Visual Studio 2019 Release Notes". Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved July 24, 2019. ↑ Visual C++ Express Overview ↑ "Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Refresh". C++ Team Blog. Microsoft. April 22, 2008. 1 2 "Microsoft Buys Into Inprise, Settles Disputes". Techweb.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved January 6, 2012. ↑ "MFC Update Powered By BCGSoft". Msdn2.microsoft.com. November 9, 2007. Retrieved November 16, 2007. ↑ Kruglinski, David (1997). Inside Visual C++ (4 ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 9781572315655. Murray, W. H.; Pappas, C. H. (2000). MFC Programming in C++ with the Standard Template Libraries. New Jersey: Prentice–Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-016111-6. Walnum, C.; Robichaux, P. E. (1997). Using MFC and ATL. Que. ISBN 978-0-78-970751-2. External links edit The latest supported Visual C++ downloads - Microsoft Where can I download Visual C++ Redistributables? - Microsoft MSDN MFC Reference - Microsoft MFC: Visual Studio 2005 and Beyond - Microsoft Microsoft APIs and frameworks
Graphics and UI	Desktop Window Manager Direct2D Direct3D D3D (extensions) GDI / GDI+ WPF Silverlight WinUI Windows Color System Windows Image Acquisition Windows Imaging Component DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform WinG
Audio	DirectMusic DirectSound XACT Speech API XAudio2
Multimedia	DirectX Media Objects Video Acceleration Xinput DirectInput DirectShow Managed DirectX Media Foundation XNA Windows Media Video for Windows
Web	MSHTML JScript VBScript BHO XDR SideBar Gadgets TypeScript
Data access	Data Access Components (MDAC) ADO ADO.NET ODBC OLE DB Extensible Storage Engine Entity Framework Sync Framework Access Database Engine MSXML OPC
Networking	Winsock LSP Winsock Kernel Filtering Platform NDIS Windows Rally BITS P2P API MSMQ DirectPlay
Communication	Messaging API Telephony API WCF
Administration and management	Win32 console Windows Script Host WMI (extensions) PowerShell Task Scheduler Offline Files Shadow Copy Windows Installer Error Reporting Event Log Common Log File System
Component model	COM COM+ ActiveX Distributed Component Object Model .NET Framework
Libraries	Framework Class Library Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) Active Template Library (ATL) Windows Template Library (WTL)
Device drivers	WDM WDF KMDF UMDF WDDM NDIS UAA VxD
Security	Crypto API CAPICOM Windows CardSpace Data Protection API Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)
.NET	ASP.NET ADO.NET Remoting Silverlight TPL WCF WCS WPF WF
Software factories	Enterprise Library CCF
IPC	MSRPC Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) Remoting WCF
Accessibility	Active Accessibility UI Automation
Text and multilingual support	DirectWrite Text Services Framework Text Object Model Input method editor Language Interface Pack Multilingual User Interface Uniscribe

List of widget toolkits

Low-level platform-specific

On AmigaOS

Intuition

On Classic Mac OS, macOS

On Windows

On Unix

On BeOS, Haiku

BeOS API

On Android

CLI	Xamarin.Android

Low Level Cross-platform

Java

JOGL
LWJGL

High-level, platform-specific

On AmigaOS

On Classic Mac OS, macOS

Object Pascal	MacApp
Objective-C, Swift	Cocoa Cocoa Touch
C++	MacApp PowerPlant THINK C
CLI	Xamarin.Mac Xamarin.iOS

On Windows

CLI	Windows Forms XAML Windows Presentation Foundation Windows UI Library Silverlight Microsoft XNA
C++	MFC Active Template Library Windows Template Library Object Windows Library
Object Pascal	Visual Component Library