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Developers who want to customize one of the existing desktop products on a Windows platform can use the Desktop Development Kit. This section will give a brief overview of the Windows' clients.

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Desktop Development Kit
The Windows' clients include an integration into 'Windows Explorer' and the Microsoft Office suite of programs. The Windows-based integrations all make use of a common set of COM-based components. Each component implements a single piece of content management functionality, (checkin, view/edit properties, etc).The Visual Basic source code for these components is made available to allow for customizations, also the C++ source code for the Office integration is available.