HOWTO: Search for Visual Studio Articles Using KBKeywords

• Microsoft Visual Studio 97

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) is categorized by using keywords. This article lists the keywords specific to articles about Visual Studio.

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Microsoft Visual Studio KBKeywords

Each KB article in the Visual Studio Knowledge Base collection may contain one or more product-specific keywords (called KBKeywords) that place the article in an appropriate Visual Studio category. For example, you can find all the setup articles relating to Visual Studio 97 by using VS97Setup as the keyword when you query the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

An article usually has only one KBKeyword, but it may have more.

Following are the topics and the corresponding KBKeywords.

   Topic                                 KBKeyword
   ----------------------------------------------------

   General Visual Studio Information     VSGenIss
   Setup Issues in Visual Studio 97      VS97Setup
   InfoViewer Issues                     VSInfoView
   Visual Studio version of MSDN         VSMSDN
   Automation Issues                     VSDSAuto
   Anomaly Tracking System               Msats
   VS97 Buglist for Service Pack 1       VS97BuglistSP1
   VS97 Fixlist for Service Pack 1       VS97FixlistSP1
   VS97 Buglist for Service Pack 2       VS97BuglistSP2
   VS97 Fixlist for Service Pack 2       VS97FixlistSP2
   VS97 Fixlist for Service Pack 3       VS97FixlistSP3
   Bug in Visual Studio 97               VS97Bug

Product-Specific Keywords

You can use the KBKeywords to organize Studio articles or to search for specific groups of Visual Studio 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 Visual Studio Knowledge Base (KB) 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.

REFERENCES

For more information about 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