HOWTO: Search for Win32 SDK Articles Using KBKeywords

Last reviewed: March 10, 1998
Article ID: Q115696
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) versions 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0
  • Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Microsoft Win32s versions 1.25, 1.3, 1.30a, 1.3c

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) is categorized by using keywords. This article lists the keywords specific to articles in the Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows NT and Windows 95 Collection.

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Microsoft Win32 SDK Major and Minor KBKeywords

Each KB article in the Win32 SDK collection may contain one or more product- specific keywords (called KBKeywords) that places the article in an appropriate Win32 SDK category. Each KBKeyword is composed of the concatenation of a major topic keyword and a minor topic keyword. For example, you can find all the BASE DLL articles by using BseDll as the keyword when you query the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to find articles that fall into the general categories or into an intermediate subcategory. For example, to find all the articles that apply to GDI issues, query on Gdi*. An article usually has only one KBKeyword, but it may have more.

Here are the topics and the corresponding KBKeywords. The minor topics are in the indented list under each major topic.

   Major Topic
      Minor Topic                  KBKeyword
   ------------------------------------------------------

   BASE (Bse)
      Base Debugging Issues        BseDebug
      Communication APIs           BseCommapi
      Console                      BseCon
      Cryptography                 BseCrypt
      Date & Time                  BseMisc
      Disk I/O, DeviceIOControl    BseFileio
      DLLs                         BseDll
      Event Logging                BseEvtLog
      Exception Handling           BseExcept
      File I/O                     BseFileio
      Floating Point               BseFltpt
      GINA                         BseSecurity
      ImgHlp DLL                   BseDebug
      IPC                          BseIpc
      LSA                          BseSecurity
      Memory Management            BseMm
      Miscellaneous                BseMisc
      Notifications                BseNotify
      Object Store                 BseObjStore
      Performance Monitoring       BsePerfmon
      Plug & Play                  BseMisc
      Procedure Threads            BseProcThrd
      Registry                     BseRegistry
      Remote API                   BseRemoteAPI
      Security                     BseSecurity
      Service                      BseService
      Synchronization              BseSync
      Tape Backup                  BseTape
      Thunks                       BseThunks
      ToolHlp32                    BseMisc

   GDI (Gdi)
      Bitmaps                      GdiBmp
      Brushes/Pens                 GdiPnbr
      Cursors/Icons                GdiCurico
      DCs                          GdiDc
      DirectDraw                   GdiDirectDraw
      Direct3D                     GdiDirect3D
      Display                      GdiDisplay
      Drawing                      GdiDrw
      Fonts                        GdiFnt
      GDI Misc                     GdiMisc
      Metafiles                    GdiMeta
      OpenGL                       GdiOpenGL
      Palettes/Colors              GdiPal
      Printing                     GdiPrn
      Screen Saver                 GdiScrsav
      TrueType                     GdiTt

   INTERNATIONALIZATION (KBIntlDev)
      All European Issues          KbIntlDevEu
      Far East Fonts               KbIntlDevFont
      Far East IME                 KbIntlDevIME
      Far East Others              KbIntlDevFe
      Middle East BIDI Issues      KbIntlDevBidi
      Middle East Others           KbIntlDevME
      NLS Issues                   KbIntlDevNLS
      Unicode Issues               KbIntlDevUni

   MAPI
      Address Book Provider        MAPIIAB
      Client Extensibility         EXCHEXT
      EDKAPI                       EDKAPI
      Extended MAPI Client         EMAPI
      MAPI Forms                   MAPIFORM
      OLE Messaging                OLEMSG
      Simple MAPI CMC              SMAPICMC
      Store Provider               MAPIIMS
      Transport Provider           MAPIIXP

   PMAIL
      Transport Provider           PMAILTrans

   PIM
      Address Book                  PIMAddr

   MISC
      International Issues         KBIntlDev
      Setup/Install                Setins
      Subsystems                   SubSys

   MULTIMEDIA
      ActiveMovie                  MMActiveMovie
      CD-ROM                       MMCDROM
      DirectInput                  MMDirectInput
      DirectSound                  MMDirectSound
      Joystick                     MMJoy
      MediaView                    MMMediaView
      Midi                         MMMidi
      Miscellaneous                MMMisc
      Multimedia Timers            MMTimer
      MM File I/O Services         MMIO
      Sound Card Mixer Control     MMMixer
      Speech SDK                   MMSpeech
      Video for Windows (VFW)      MMVideo
      Waveform Audio               MMWave

   NETWORKING (Ntwk)
      LAN Manager APIs             NtwkLmapi
      NetBIOS                      NtwkNetbios
      Networking Misc              NtwkMisc
      RAS APIs                     NtwkRAS
      RPC                          NtwkRpc
      SNMP                         NtwkSnmp
      TC/PIP                       NtwkTcpip
      WNet APIs                    NtwkWinnet
      Windows Sockets              NtwkWinsock

   PEN                             Wpen*
      Video Drivers                WpenVideoDrv
      Pen Drivers                  WpenTbltDrv
      OAK                          WpenOemOak
      Recognizer                   WpenRcgnzr
      Dictionary                   WpenDict
      Visual Basic                 WpenVB
      Training                     WpenTrain
      RC                           WpenRc
      RCRESULT                     WpenRcResult
      SYG                          WpenSyg
      SYV                          WpenSyv
      SYC                          WpenSyc
      SYE                          WpenSye
      Ink                          WpenInk
      Setup                        WpenSetup
      Pen applets                  WpenApps
      control panel apps           WpenCpl
      PEN UI                       WpenPenUI
      Gestures                     WpenGestures
      Keyboard                     WpenKeyboard
      Pen Misc                     WpenMisc

   TAPI
      Telephony API                Tapi

   TOOLS (Tls)
      Dialog Editor                TlsDlg
      Font Editor                  TlsFnt
      Headers                      TlsHdr
      Help Compiler                TlsHlp
      Image Editor                 TlsImg
      MEP                          TlsMep
      Misc                         TlsMisc
      MS Setup                     TlsMss
      Porting Tool                 TlsPort
      Profiler                     TlsPrf
      Resource Compiler            TlsRc
      Spy                          TlsSpy
      WinDbg                       TlsWindbg
      Pegasus Loader               TlsLoad
      HTML Help                    TlsHelp

   USER (Usr)
      Classes                      UsrCls
      Clipboard                    UsrClp
      Common Dialogs               UsrCmnDlg
      Controls                     UsrCtl
      DDE                          UsrDde
      Dialog/Message Boxes         UsrDlgs
      Drag & Drop                  UsrDnd
      Extension Libraries          UsrExt
      Hooks                        UsrHks
      Input-Mouse/Keyboard         UsrInp
      Localization/Intntl.         UsrLoc
      MDI                          UsrMdi
      Menus/Accelerators           UsrMen
      Network DDE                  UsrNetDde
      New Shell issues             UsrShell
      NLS                          UsrNls
      Owner Draw                   UsrOwn
      Resources                    UsrRes
      Strict                       UsrStrict
      User Misc                    UsrMisc
      Window Manager               UsrWndw

   WIN32S
      Win32s                       W32s
      Win32s Thunk                 W32sThunk
      Win32s Setup Issues          W32sSetup

Product-Specific Keywords

You can use the KBKeywords to organize Win32 SDK articles or to search for specific groups of Win32 SDK articles. For information about KBKeywords for other Microsoft developer products, please query the Microsoft Knowledge Base using these keywords:

   dskbguide and kbkeyword

KB-wide Keywords

Each article in the Win32 SDK collection also contains at least one generic, KB-wide keyword. The KB-wide keywords are standard throughout the Microsoft Knowledge Base, appearing in all KB articles, regardless of product. You can use the KB-wide keywords to organize all KB articles or to search for articles across several Microsoft products. For more information about these KB-wide keywords, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q94671
   TITLE     : Categories and Keywords for All Knowledge Base Articles


Additional query words: dskbguide bucket keywords win95
Keywords : GenSDK kbkeyword
Version : WINNT:3.1,3.5,3.51;
Platform : Win95 winnt
Issue type : kbhowto


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Last reviewed: March 10, 1998
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