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WD97: CAPI and WLL Support Policy

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Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007


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SUMMARY

The CAPI and the creation of WLLs are only supported through the Office Developer Consulting Line, which provides consulting services at a rate of $195 per hour. The consulting line can be reached at 800-936-5200. Support is done on a call-back basis.

You can post questions about the CAPI and WLLs to the Microsoft Internet Newsgroups. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
These newsgroups are public forums and not directly supported by Microsoft.

Microsoft technical communities provide opportunities to interact with Microsoft employees, experts, and your peers to share knowledge and news about Microsoft products and related technologies. These technical communities provide a variety of ways to access answers to questions, solutions to problems, and to share your own expertise. For more information about these technical communities, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note The Microsoft Word Developer's Kit includes MAPI Extensions (WBMAPI.DLL) and ODBC Extensions (WBODBC.WLL). These add-ons are examples only and are not supported by Microsoft, as documented in the beginning of the Appendixes in the third edition of the Microsoft Word Developer's Kit.

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The CAPI or Word Application Programming Interface is described in Appendix C of the Microsoft Word Developer's Kit. The CAPI allows C programmers to create Windows DLL files that contain code to drive Word. These DLLs contain equivalent WordBasic code in the C language.

WLLs are add-ons to Word that are typically placed in the <Winword>\Startup folder. WLLs are basically renamed DLLs that offer faster add-on functionality than what WordBasic offers.

The Microsoft Word Developer's Kit includes two extensions to Word:

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