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description: "Learn more about: Libraries"
title: "Libraries"
ms.date: "11/18/2018"
---
# Libraries

Visual Studio includes the following libraries when you install one or more of the C++ workloads. For information about installing 3rd-party libraries, see [vcpkg](/vcpkg/).

## Standard Libraries

[C Runtime Library](../c-runtime-library/c-run-time-library-reference.md)<br/>
[C++ Standard Library](../standard-library/cpp-standard-library-reference.md)<br/>
[SafeInt Library](../safeint/safeint-library.md)<br/>
[OpenMP](../parallel/openmp/openmp-in-visual-cpp.md)

## Libraries for Windows applications

[MFC/ATL](../mfc/mfc-and-atl.md)<br/>
[Parallel Libraries](../parallel/parallel-programming-in-visual-cpp.md)<br/>
[Data Access Libraries](../data/data-access-in-cpp.md)