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The crazy high numbers are due to a fairly Microsoft-specific definition of "API" in this context. What they count here is class members; so they ported a class with 15 methods and 3 properties, they'd count this as "18 APIs" (or perhaps 19 - not sure if the class itself counts as an "API" as well).

That being said, I'm sure there was indeed an impressive amount of code that had to be ported.

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All public members are legitimate APIs. Would you be more happy if every property had get* and set* methods so now it counts as two?

I think the point was that often "an API" means a larger collection of functions, classes, properties, etc. Like the COM API, the DirectX API, the MFC API and so on.

Yes, that's what I meant. The use of the term "API" for a single public code element is something I have not come across in any other language community, hence the clarification for those who are not familiar.

I've seen it before in Apple communication. I hate this usage. It doesn't cost a lot of keystrokes to write "API members" which is more precise.

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