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Core Foundation is a framework that provides fundamental software services useful to application services, application environments, and to applications themselves. With Core Foundation, developers can build cross-platform applications, and can share code and data among frameworks, libraries, and applications in different environments and layers more easily than ever. Core Foundation also provides abstractions for common data types, facilitates internationalization with Unicode string storage, and offers a suite of utilities such as plug-in support, XML property lists, URL resource access, and preferences.



Core Foundation Resources
Getting Started A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Core Foundation.	Fundamentals Essential information for developers using the Core Foundation framework.	API Reference Descriptions of the Core Foundation procedural C programming interface, organized by opaque type.



Core Foundation Topics View the complete Core Foundation Documentation List.
Data Management Programming interfaces for representing and manipulating various types of data.	Design Guidelines Policies for creating efficient, reliable, and intuitively usable programs.	Events & Other Input High-level messages, such as user actions and changes in an application's status, sent to applications by the operating system.



File Management Programming interfaces for gaining access to files and folders on physical storage devices.	Internationalization Facilities for readying applications for other text systems and locale-specific features.	Internet & Web Resources for web developers to ensure that users of their sites enjoy a high-quality web-browsing experience.



Networking Major protocols and services that support networking and communication capabilities.	Performance Tools, techniques, and programming interfaces for measuring, evaluating, and improving code performance.	Process Management Facilities for programs to help manage their own scheduling and execution.



Resource Management Support for locating, loading, and using various sorts of resources, such as memory allocations, feature availability information, and localized strings, in an application.



	New & Updated Core Foundation Reference 2004-10-05 Bundles 2004-08-31 Locales 2004-08-31 Plug-ins 2004-08-31 Preferences 2004-08-31 The Mac OS X File System 2004-08-31 View Core Foundation Documentation Revision List

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