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WTL provides support for implementing various user interface elements, from frame and popup windows, to [[Multiple document interface|MDI]], standard and common controls, common dialogs, property sheets and pages, [[Graphics Device Interface|GDI]] objects, UI updating, scrollable windows, splitter windows, command bars, etc. The WTL classes are mostly templated and use minimal instance data and inline functions. They were not designed as a framework, so they do not impose a particular application model, and can accommodate any. The classes do not use hooks or thread local storage, so they have no restrictions that those techniques impose. They also have no inter-dependencies and can be freely mixed with straight [[SDK]] code. In summary, WTL delivers very small and efficient code, very close in size and speed to [[SDK]] programs, while presenting a more logical, object oriented model to a programmer.

==History==

[[Nenad Stefanovic]] works at [[Microsoft]] and joined the [[Active Template Library|ATL]] team when work was starting on version 2.0, he started working on adding windowing support to the library, as well as doing the composite control support in VC 6.0. WTL was later siphoned off as a separate open source project with Nenad managing it.

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