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mbd · Apr 11th, 2008, 12:53 AM

if you want to learn about the APIs for those programs and you are working on windows, then you need to learn about COM. i can only really speak from experience about word. it is composed of thousands of COM objects. they can be accessed from any COM compliant language. this means that several languages were probably used to create the interfaces for these programs. i would bet that mostly c++ and vb6 were used in the past, and .net is used more now.

Apr 11th, 2008, 12:53 AM	#5
mbd Programmer Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 86 Rep Power: 1	Re: Question about GUIs if you want to learn about the APIs for those programs and you are working on windows, then you need to learn about COM. i can only really speak from experience about word. it is composed of thousands of COM objects. they can be accessed from any COM compliant language. this means that several languages were probably used to create the interfaces for these programs. i would bet that mostly c++ and vb6 were used in the past, and .net is used more now.