What is an API??? All the possible things that you can think of. It has to do with something in technology. ie)Microsoft

[bolbim33]

helpp.....!!!

 

[gopunk]

Application Programming Interface

 

[XZeroII]

Yes, Application Programming Interface. Basically, Microsoft wrote a ton of subroutines and procedures and together they make up windows. For example, there is a subroutine that allows you to create a window. Another to create a button, or to get the current time, or to save a file, or whatever. The big stink is that Microsoft created some and did not tell anyone, so competitors claim that those undocumented API's gave them an edge. A company then finds an undocumented API, uses it, and in the next version of Windows, Microsoft takes it out and the program no longer works anymore.

 

[gopunk]

<< Yes, Application Programming Interface. Basically, Microsoft wrote a ton of subroutines and procedures and together they make up windows. For example, there is a subroutine that allows you to create a window. Another to create a button, or to get the current time, or to save a file, or whatever. The big stink is that Microsoft created some and did not tell anyone, so competitors claim that those undocumented API's gave them an edge. A company then finds an undocumented API, uses it, and in the next version of Windows, Microsoft takes it out and the program no longer works anymore. >>



interesting! though i side with MS... the developers can write their own code if they so choose... they use other people's code at their own risk.

 

[MadRat]

If its in one version it needs to be supported in the next.

 

[gopunk]

<< If its in one version it needs to be supported in the next. >>



first: no, you should be able to do whatever you want to your own product

second: these are undocumented subroutines we're talking about...

 

[yakko]

<< Yes, Application Programming Interface. Basically, Microsoft wrote a ton of subroutines and procedures and together they make up windows. For example, there is a subroutine that allows you to create a window. Another to create a button, or to get the current time, or to save a file, or whatever. The big stink is that Microsoft created some and did not tell anyone, so competitors claim that those undocumented API's gave them an edge. A company then finds an undocumented API, uses it, and in the next version of Windows, Microsoft takes it out and the program no longer works anymore. >>

So?