Wat (wie) is Win32 - definitie

MICROSOFT'S CORE SET OF APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES AVAILABLE IN WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS

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Win32

<programming> An application programming interface that is common to all Microsoft's 32-bit Windows {operating systems}. These currently include: Windows 95, {Windows 98}, Windows NT and Windows CE. [Relationship with Win32s?] (1997-12-20)

Windows API

The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. The name Windows API collectively refers to several different platform implementations that are often referred to by their own names (for example, Win32 API); see the versions section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API

Windows Open Service Architecture

<architecture, library, microsoft> (WOSA) One of the mainstays of Microsoft Windows: the ethos of abstraction of core services. For each extension, Windows Open Services Architecture defines an API and an SPI, as well as a universal interface (usually placed in a single DLL) that both comply to. These then transparently let the operating system speak to device drivers, database managers, and other low level entities. These extensions include, among others, ODBC (called the "crowning jewel of WOSA"), TAPI, WOSA/XFS, SAPI and MAPI, and their supporting services, as well as the abstraction of access to printers, modems, and {networking services}, which run identically over TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBEUI. (2000-08-16)

Wikipedia

Windows API

The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. The name Windows API collectively refers to several different platform implementations that are often referred to by their own names (for example, Win32 API); see the versions section. Almost all Windows programs interact with the Windows API. On the Windows NT line of operating systems, a small number (such as programs started early in the Windows startup process) use the Native API.

Developer support is available in the form of a software development kit, Microsoft Windows SDK, providing documentation and tools needed to build software based on the Windows API and associated Windows interfaces.

The Windows API (Win32) is focused mainly on the programming language C in that its exposed functions and data structures are described in that language in recent versions of its documentation. However, the API may be used by any programming language compiler or assembler able to handle the (well-defined) low-level data structures along with the prescribed calling conventions for calls and callbacks. Similarly, the internal implementation of the API's function has been developed in several languages, historically. Despite the fact that C is not an object-oriented programming language, the Windows API and Windows have both historically been described as object-oriented. There have also been many wrapper classes and extensions (from Microsoft and others) for object-oriented languages that make this object-oriented structure more explicit (Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC), Visual Component Library (VCL), GDI+, etc.). For instance, Windows 8 provides the Windows API and the WinRT API, which is implemented in C++ and is object-oriented by design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows API