Web Application & Win32

Running Head : WIN 32 AND WEB APPLICATIONS Name

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Introduction

Definitions

How it works

Actual specifications

Advantages and disadvantages of open source software

Windows API versions

The future

Conclusion

References Introduction

What is an application programming interface (API ? by definition an API is a group of procedures , data structures , object classes and set of rules made available by libraries and /or operating system services to support the construction of applications

Application programmers using earlier versions

of windows like windows 1 .0 had tedious work of writing many lines of codes for simple application programs like the Hello word which outputs the word Hello on a users Visual display unit (VDU . Alterations and additions have been witnessed in the later versions of windows operating system . Windows Application programming interface has also undergone a considerable amount of change and earlier versions of windows Application programming interface such as the windows API for Windows 1 .0 supported 450 function calls while the latest Windows APIs supports thousands of function calls . Windows releases have been able to maintain interface consistency i .e old windows applications will still resemble the modern windows application programming interfaces

The main change in the windows application programming interface however , is the change from Win 16 API which was in windows 3 .1 and other windows earlier versions to Win 32 API which was contained in windows NT and windows 95 and other later versions of windows operating system (Villan , 1999 ,

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