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=== ADVAPI32.DLL ===

'''ADVAPI32.DLL''', the Advanced Windows 32 Base API DLL,<ref>{{cite web|title=How RPC Works: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) {{!}} Microsoft Learn|author=[[Microsoft]]|date=8 October 2009 |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc738291(v=ws.10)|access-date=11 September 2023}}</ref> provides security calls and functions for manipulating the [[Windows Registry]].

=== NETAPI32.DLL ===

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This runtime library is used by programs written in Visual C++ and a few other compilers (e.g. [[MinGW]]). Some compilers have their own runtime libraries.

With Version 14.0 ([[Visual_Studio|Visual Studio 2015]]), most of the C/C++ runtime was moved into a new DLL, UCRTBASE.DLL, which conforms closely with C99[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/upgrade-your-code-to-the-universal-crt?view=msvc-170]. '''Universal C Run Time''' ('''UCRT''') from Windows 10 onwards become a component part of Windows[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/upgrade-your-code-to-the-universal-crt?view=msvc-170], so every compiler (either non MS, like [[GNU_Compiler_Collection|GCC]] or [[Clang]]/[[LLVM]]) can link against UCRT[https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/]. Additionally, C/C++ programs using UCRTBASE.DLL need to link against another new DLL, the Visual C++ Runtime. At Version 14.0, this was VCRUNTIME140.DLL.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2015-2017?view=msvc-170 | title=C++ binary compatibility 2015-2022 | date=11 March 2024 }}</ref> The name has the potential to change at future versions, but has not done so as far as of Version 17.0.

Source code for runtime libraries is included in Visual C++<ref>{{cite web | url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa296413(v=vs.60).aspx | title=Source Code for the C Run-Time Functions | date=15 September 2006 }}</ref> for reference and debugging (e.g. in <code>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\crt\src</code>).

=== Other runtime libraries ===

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=== .NET Framework libraries ===

Programs written in [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Visual Basic.NET]], [[C++/CLI]] and other .NET languages require the [[.NET Framework]]. It has many libraries (one of them is '''mscorlib.dll'''{{snd}} Multilanguage Standard Common Object Runtime Library, formerly Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://weblogs.asp.net/mreynolds/archive/2004/01/31/65551.aspx|title = What does the "ms" in "mscorlib" stand for - hint: It's not "Microsoft"| date=31 January 2004 }}</ref>) and so-called [[Assembly (CLI)|assemblies]] (e.g. '''System.Windows.Forms.dll''').

== See also ==