This session offers technical highlights of recent features added to the VCL library, supporting the Windows API, COM shell integration, the WinRT platform, the Microsoft Windows Store (via Desktop Bridge and APPX), and the recent features Microsoft has been adding to the "Windows app platform". With Microsoft pushing new focus on the native Windows API world, it is good to refocus on the key tenets of VCL and consider what Embarcadero has added to the library in recent years – and see what’s coming next.