Windows

What are DLLs? Dynamic-link Libraries (DLLs) are Microsoft’s implementation of shared code on the Windows Operating System. By means of modularizing code into smaller segments and individual files, Windows applications can utilize this shared code. This allows them to avoid including the same piece of code, again and again. Usually, the functions written in a DLL file are exportable. The DllMain function in a particular file carries out the basic tasks, whereas the individual functions can then be imported into code as well....

Windows API, in short, the WinAPI, is a set of functions and procedures, which can abstract much of the tasks you perform everyday on the Windows OS. The Application Programming Interface (API) calls exposes these functions to programmers to make use of procedures when writing one of your own isn’t the most effective. Although the API calls are a bit hard to work with, they can still help you achieve much of what you’d like, without further coding....