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Core Foundation

Access low-level functions, primitive data types, and various collection types that are bridged seamlessly with the Foundation framework.

Overview

Core Foundation is a framework that provides fundamental software services useful to application services, application environments, and to applications themselves. 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.

For more about Core Foundation, see Core Foundation Design Concepts.

Topics

Utilities

Opaque Types

Reference

Variables

Functions