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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Manufacturers_Alliance_for_Productivity_and_Innovation" title="Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation">Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation</a> or <a href="IMAP" class="mw-redirect" title="IMAP">IMAP</a>.</div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the Israeli government agency, see <a href="Survey_of_Israel" title="Survey of Israel">Survey of Israel</a>.</div>
<p><b>Messaging Application Programming Interface</b> (<b>MAPI</b>) is an <a href="Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">API</a> for <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> which allows programs to become <a href="Email" title="Email">email</a>-aware. While MAPI is designed to be independent of the protocol, it is usually used to communicate with <a href="Microsoft_Exchange_Server" title="Microsoft Exchange Server">Microsoft Exchange Server</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Details">Details</h2></div>
<p>MAPI uses functions loosely based on the <a href="X.400" title="X.400">X.400</a> XAPIA standard. It includes facilities to access <a href="Mail_transfer_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail transfer agent">message transports</a>, message stores, and <a href="Directory_services" class="mw-redirect" title="Directory services">directories</a>.
</p><p>While <i>Simple MAPI</i> (SMAPI) is a subset of 12 functions which enable developers to add basic messaging functionality, <i>Extended MAPI</i> (EMAPI) allows complete control over the messaging system on the client computer. This includes creation and management of messages, plus management of the client mailbox, and service providers.
</p><p>Simple MAPI is included with <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> as part of <a href="Outlook_Express" title="Outlook Express">Outlook Express</a>/<a href="Windows_Mail" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Mail">Windows Mail</a> while the full Extended MAPI is included with <a href="Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a> and <a href="Microsoft_Exchange_Server" title="Microsoft Exchange Server">Exchange</a>.
</p><p>In addition to the Extended MAPI client interface, programming calls can be made indirectly through the Simple MAPI API client interface, through the <i>Common Messaging Calls</i> (CMC) API client interface, or by the object-based <i><a href="Collaboration_Data_Objects" title="Collaboration Data Objects">CDO</a> Library</i> interface. These three methods are easier to use and designed for less complex messaging-enabled and -aware applications. (Simple MAPI and CMC were removed from Exchange 2003.)
</p><p>MAPI was originally designed by <a href="Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>. The company founded its MS Mail team in 1987, but it was not until it acquired <a href="Consumers_Software" title="Consumers Software">Consumers Software</a> in 1991 to obtain <i>Network Courier</i> that it had a messaging product. Reworked, it was sold as MS PC Mail (or <a href="Microsoft_Mail" title="Microsoft Mail">Microsoft Mail</a> for PC Networking). The basic API to MS PC Mail was later known as MAPI version 0 (or <i>MAPI0</i>), to differentiate it from "true" MAPI.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_provider_interface">Service provider interface</h2></div>
<p>The full Extended MAPI interface is required for interfacing messaging-based services to client applications such as Outlook. For example, several non-Microsoft e-mail server product vendors created "MAPI service providers" to allow their products to be accessed via Outlook. Notable examples include <a href="Axigen" title="Axigen">Axigen Mail Server</a>, <a href="Kerio_Connect" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerio Connect">Kerio Connect</a>, <a href="Scalix" title="Scalix">Scalix</a>, <a href="Zimbra" title="Zimbra">Zimbra</a>, <a href="HP_OpenMail" title="HP OpenMail">HP OpenMail</a>, <a href="IBM_Lotus_Notes" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM Lotus Notes">IBM Lotus Notes</a>, <a href="Zarafa_(software)" title="Zarafa (software)">Zarafa</a>/<a href="Kopano_(software)" title="Kopano (software)">Kopano</a>, and <a href="Bynari" title="Bynari">Bynari</a>.
</p><p>MAPI also had a service provider interface of sorts. Microsoft used this to interface MS Mail to an email system based on <a href="Xenix" title="Xenix">Xenix</a>, for internal use.
</p><p>Extended MAPI is the main e-mail data access method used by Outlook, to interface to Microsoft Exchange, via MAPI service providers shipped with Outlook.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MAPI/RPC_protocol_details">MAPI/RPC protocol details</h2></div>
<p>Microsoft has released full details of the MAPI/RPC protocol since August 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>"MAPI protocol" is a colloquial name for the MAPI/RPC. At times, Microsoft has also called it "Exchange RPC" and "Outlook-Exchange Transport Protocol".
</p><p>Microsoft provides a sample MAPI/RPC-based application called MFCMAPI<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to assist developers. It is also widely used as a diagnostics tool by both developers and Microsoft Exchange administrators.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MAPI_over_HTTP">MAPI over HTTP</h2></div>
<p>The original implementation was designed for use on a local network, or <a href="LAN" class="mw-redirect" title="LAN">LAN</a>.
</p><p>With Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2010, Microsoft introduced RPC over HTTP (later renamed Outlook Anywhere) as a way to Exchange over the internet.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2014, Exchange 2013 SP1 introduced another variant, this time with a more "normal" HTTP-based stack known as "MAPI over HTTP".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incompatibility_with_Internet_Mail">Incompatibility with Internet Mail</h2></div>
<p>The <a href="Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol" title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">Simple Mail Transfer Protocol</a> has always supported the concept of mail with multiple authors, and distinguishes between the "sender" and "authors" whenever there is more than one of the latter. MAPI cannot represent separate authors and senders except through the delegation mechanism, which does not permit more than one author. Thus MAPI cannot accurately transmit group letters from scientific communities to legislators, or presentation of group research via email, or similar scenarios. When fully SMTP compliant mailers (e.g. <a href="Mozilla_Thunderbird" title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a>) send perfectly formed SMTP messages with multiple authors into MAPI-dependent email infrastructures (such as Exchange/Outlook, O365, or Outlook.com) the messages must have their information density reduced to fit MAPI, presenting challenges for authentication and anti-spoofing technologies that rely on accurate message metadata transmission, and fundamentally changing messages to be something other than what was originally sent. Although the security implications impact all users, inability to represent multiple authorship is generally of little concern in purely hierarchical settings such as traditional businesses and military organizations, primarily impacting legislative and academic institutions.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reimplementations">Reimplementations</h2></div>
<p>Several <a href="Open-source_software_project" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-source software project">open-source software projects</a> have started working on implementing MAPI libraries, including:
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<ul><li>Grommunio/Gromox has C++20 implementations of MAPI/RPC and MAPI/HTTP servers.</li>
<li>The OpenMapi project (now demised)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had a C# implementation.</li>
<li><a href="Kopano_(software)" title="Kopano (software)">Kopano</a> Groupware Core has a C++2011 implementation called "mapi4linux" (continuation of the same from <a href="Zarafa_(software)" title="Zarafa (software)">Zarafa</a>), which offers an API that is source-backwards-compatible with the Messaging API (code written for M4L also build with the Windows SDK). Kopano GWC comes with a connector for the Zarafa/Kopano-based SOAP/HTTP transport.</li>
<li>OpenChange has a "libmapi" component written in C that only partially resembles MAPI. (Lacks interfaces like IMsgStore, the OpenEntry function.)</li>
<li>The OpenChange subproject Evolution-MAPI is a connector for Exchange implementing the MAPI/RPC transport.</li>
<li>The GNOME <a href="Evolution_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolution (software)">Evolution project</a> develops <i>evolution-ews</i>, which has implemented much of MAPI.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">openmapi.org used to host the downloads; it no longer exists</span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc765775.aspx">Messaging API at MSDN Library</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040928063012/http://www.openchange.org/">OpenChange project - details of MAPI protocol and tools for exploring MAPI protocol</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://launchpad.net/openmapi/">OpenMapi project - Open Source, multi-language MAPI implementation which can connect to other groupware sources, with API documentation</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090220065008/http://www.techienuggets.com/Articles?tx=16">Messaging API Archived User Forum</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mailenable.com/kb/Content/Article.asp?ID=me020589">Enabling Outlook Connector logging for support</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Desktop_Window_Manager" title="Desktop Window Manager">Desktop Window Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="Direct2D" title="Direct2D">Direct2D</a></li>
<li><a href="Direct3D" title="Direct3D">Direct3D</a></li>
<li><a href="D3DX" title="D3DX">D3D (extensions)</a></li>
<li><a href="Graphics_Device_Interface" title="Graphics Device Interface">GDI / GDI+</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Presentation_Foundation" title="Windows Presentation Foundation">WPF</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Silverlight" title="Microsoft Silverlight">Silverlight</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_UI_Library" title="Windows UI Library">WinUI</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Color_System" title="Windows Color System">Windows Color System</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Image_Acquisition" title="Windows Image Acquisition">Windows Image Acquisition</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Imaging_Component" title="Windows Imaging Component">Windows Imaging Component</a></li>
<li><a href="DirectX_Graphics_Infrastructure" title="DirectX Graphics Infrastructure">DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI)</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Advanced_Rasterization_Platform" title="Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform">Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform</a></li>
<li><a href="WinG" title="WinG">WinG</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="DirectMusic" title="DirectMusic">DirectMusic</a></li>
<li><a href="DirectSound" title="DirectSound">DirectSound</a></li>
<li><a href="Cross-platform_Audio_Creation_Tool" title="Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool">XACT</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Speech_API" title="Microsoft Speech API">Speech API</a></li>
<li><a href="XAudio2" title="XAudio2">XAudio2</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="DirectX" title="DirectX">DirectX</a>
<ul><li><a href="DirectX_Media_Objects" class="mw-redirect" title="DirectX Media Objects">Media Objects</a></li>
<li><a href="DirectX_Video_Acceleration" title="DirectX Video Acceleration">Video Acceleration</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Xinput" class="mw-redirect" title="Xinput">Xinput</a></li>
<li><a href="DirectInput" title="DirectInput">DirectInput</a></li>
<li><a href="DirectShow" title="DirectShow">DirectShow</a></li>
<li><a href="Managed_DirectX" title="Managed DirectX">Managed DirectX</a></li>
<li><a href="Media_Foundation" title="Media Foundation">Media Foundation</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_XNA" title="Microsoft XNA">XNA</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Media" title="Windows Media">Windows Media</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_for_Windows" title="Video for Windows">Video for Windows</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em">Web</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Trident_(software)" title="Trident (software)">MSHTML</a></li>
<li><a href="JScript" title="JScript">JScript</a></li>
<li><a href="VBScript" title="VBScript">VBScript</a></li>
<li><a href="Browser_Helper_Object" title="Browser Helper Object">BHO</a></li>
<li><a href="XMLHttpRequest" title="XMLHttpRequest">XDR</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Gadgets" title="Microsoft Gadgets">SideBar Gadgets</a></li>
<li><a href="TypeScript" title="TypeScript">TypeScript</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Microsoft_Data_Access_Components" title="Microsoft Data Access Components">Data Access Components (MDAC)</a>
<ul><li><a href="ActiveX_Data_Objects" title="ActiveX Data Objects">ADO</a></li>
<li><a href="ADO.NET" title="ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a></li>
<li><a href="ODBC" class="mw-redirect" title="ODBC">ODBC</a></li>
<li><a href="OLE_DB" title="OLE DB">OLE DB</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Extensible_Storage_Engine" title="Extensible Storage Engine">Extensible Storage Engine</a></li>
<li><a href="Entity_Framework" title="Entity Framework">Entity Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Sync_Framework" title="Microsoft Sync Framework">Sync Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="Access_Database_Engine" title="Access Database Engine">Access Database Engine</a></li>
<li><a href="MSXML" title="MSXML">MSXML</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_Packaging_Conventions" title="Open Packaging Conventions">OPC</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Winsock" title="Winsock">Winsock</a>
<ul><li><a href="Layered_Service_Provider" title="Layered Service Provider">LSP</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Vista_networking_technologies#Winsock_Kernel" title="Windows Vista networking technologies">Winsock Kernel</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Filtering_Platform" title="Windows Filtering Platform">Filtering Platform</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_Driver_Interface_Specification" title="Network Driver Interface Specification">NDIS</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Rally" title="Windows Rally">Windows Rally</a></li>
<li><a href="Background_Intelligent_Transfer_Service" title="Background Intelligent Transfer Service">BITS</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Vista_networking_technologies#Peer-to-peer_communication" title="Windows Vista networking technologies">P2P API</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Message_Queuing" title="Microsoft Message Queuing">MSMQ</a></li>
<li><a href="DirectPlay" title="DirectPlay">DirectPlay</a></li></ul>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="Windows_Communication_Foundation" title="Windows Communication Foundation">WCF</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Win32_console" class="mw-redirect" title="Win32 console">Win32 console</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Script_Host" title="Windows Script Host">Windows Script Host</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Management_Instrumentation" title="Windows Management Instrumentation">WMI (extensions)</a></li>
<li><a href="PowerShell" title="PowerShell">PowerShell</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Task_Scheduler" title="Windows Task Scheduler">Task Scheduler</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Vista_I/O_technologies#Offline_Files" title="Windows Vista I/O technologies">Offline Files</a></li>
<li><a href="Shadow_Copy" title="Shadow Copy">Shadow Copy</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Installer" title="Windows Installer">Windows Installer</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Error_Reporting" title="Windows Error Reporting">Error Reporting</a></li>
<li><a href="Event_Viewer#Windows_Event_Log" title="Event Viewer">Event Log</a></li>
<li><a href="Common_Log_File_System" title="Common Log File System">Common Log File System</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em"><a href="Component-based_software_engineering" title="Component-based software engineering">Component model</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Component_Object_Model" title="Component Object Model">COM</a></li>
<li><a href="Component_Object_Model#COM+" title="Component Object Model">COM+</a></li>
<li><a href="ActiveX" title="ActiveX">ActiveX</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_Component_Object_Model" title="Distributed Component Object Model">Distributed Component Object Model</a></li>
<li><a href=".NET_Framework" title=".NET Framework">.NET Framework</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em"><a href="Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">Libraries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Framework_Class_Library" title="Framework Class Library">Framework Class Library</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Library" title="Microsoft Foundation Class Library">Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)</a></li>
<li><a href="Active_Template_Library" title="Active Template Library">Active Template Library (ATL)</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Template_Library" title="Windows Template Library">Windows Template Library (WTL)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em"><a href="Device_driver" title="Device driver">Device drivers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Windows_Driver_Model" title="Windows Driver Model">WDM</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Driver_Frameworks" title="Windows Driver Frameworks">WDF</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kernel-Mode_Driver_Framework" title="Kernel-Mode Driver Framework">KMDF</a></li>
<li><a href="User-Mode_Driver_Framework" title="User-Mode Driver Framework">UMDF</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Display_Driver_Model" title="Windows Display Driver Model">WDDM</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_Driver_Interface_Specification" title="Network Driver Interface Specification">NDIS</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_Audio_Architecture" title="Universal Audio Architecture">UAA</a></li>
<li><a href="VxD" title="VxD">VxD</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em">Security</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Microsoft_CryptoAPI" title="Microsoft CryptoAPI">Crypto API</a>
<ul><li><a href="CAPICOM" title="CAPICOM">CAPICOM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Windows_CardSpace" title="Windows CardSpace">Windows CardSpace</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_Protection_API" title="Data Protection API">Data Protection API</a></li>
<li><a href="Security_Support_Provider_Interface" title="Security Support Provider Interface">Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em"><a href=".NET_Framework" title=".NET Framework">.NET</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="ASP.NET" title="ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a></li>
<li><a href="ADO.NET" title="ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a></li>
<li><a href=".NET_Remoting" title=".NET Remoting">Remoting</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Silverlight" title="Microsoft Silverlight">Silverlight</a></li>
<li><a href="Task_Parallel_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Task Parallel Library">TPL</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Communication_Foundation" title="Windows Communication Foundation">WCF</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_CardSpace" title="Windows CardSpace">WCS</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Presentation_Foundation" title="Windows Presentation Foundation">WPF</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Workflow_Foundation" title="Windows Workflow Foundation">WF</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em"><a href="Software_Factory_(Microsoft_.NET)" class="mw-redirect" title="Software Factory (Microsoft .NET)">Software factories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Microsoft_Enterprise_Library" title="Microsoft Enterprise Library">Enterprise Library</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Customer_Care_Framework" title="Microsoft Customer Care Framework">CCF</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em"><a href="Inter-process_communication" title="Inter-process communication">IPC</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Microsoft_RPC" title="Microsoft RPC">MSRPC</a></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_Data_Exchange" title="Dynamic Data Exchange">Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)</a></li>
<li><a href=".NET_Remoting" title=".NET Remoting">Remoting</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Communication_Foundation" title="Windows Communication Foundation">WCF</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em">Accessibility</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Microsoft_Active_Accessibility" title="Microsoft Active Accessibility">Active Accessibility</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_UI_Automation" title="Microsoft UI Automation">UI Automation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em">Text and multilingual<br>support</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="DirectWrite" title="DirectWrite">DirectWrite</a></li>
<li><a href="Text_Services_Framework" title="Text Services Framework">Text Services Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="Text_Object_Model" title="Text Object Model">Text Object Model</a></li>
<li><a href="Input_method" title="Input method">Input method editor</a></li>
<li><a href="Language_Interface_Pack" title="Language Interface Pack">Language Interface Pack</a></li>
<li><a href="Multilingual_User_Interface" title="Multilingual User Interface">Multilingual User Interface</a></li>
<li><a href="Uniscribe" title="Uniscribe">Uniscribe</a></li></ul>
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