Describes about the sources of information on developing applications for Windows and outlines a procedure for building and debugging external procedures.

• About Finding Information on Application Development for Windows
  Describes where to find information on developing applications specifically for Windows.
• 32-bit to 64-bit Application Migration
  Use Oracle 64-bit components to create your applications.
• About Building External Procedures
  Describes how to create and use external procedures on Windows.
• Overview of Multithreaded Agent Architecture
  An agent process is started for each session to access a system at the same time leading to several thousand agent processes concurrently.
• About Debugging External Procedures
  Usually, when an external procedure fails, its C prototype is faulty.
• About Accessing Text Files with UTL_FILE
  Package UTL_FILE allows your PL/SQL programs to read and write the operating system text files.