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Core Foundation

Core Foundation is a framework that provides fundamental software services. Developers can use Core Foundation to build cross-platform applications and can share code and data among frameworks, libraries, and applications. Core Foundation provides abstractions for common data types, facilitates internationalization through Unicode string storage, and offers a suite of utilities.


Getting Started A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Core Foundation.	Fundamentals Essential information for developers using the Core Foundation framework.	Frameworks C API references organized by framework.



Core Foundation Topics View the complete Core Foundation Release Notes List.
Design Guidelines Principles to consider when designing an application using Core Foundation.	Networking Protocols and services that support networking using Core Foundation.	Performance Support for improving Core Foundation code performance.