HOWTO: Search for Windows DDK Articles Using KBKeywords

• Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.1

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) is categorized by using keywords. This article lists the keywords specific to articles in the Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) for Windows collection.

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Microsoft Windows DDK Major and Minor KBKeywords

Each KB article in the Windows DDK collection may contain one or more product-specific keywords (called KBKeywords) that places the article in an appropriate Windows DDK 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 DDK printer issue articles by using DdkPrnt as the keyword when you query the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to find articles that fall into the general category. For example, to find all the articles that apply to the DDK, query on Ddk*.

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
   -------------------------------------------------

   Windows DDK Buckets
      Setup/Installation           SetIns
      Environment Issues           Envt
      Tools                        Tls
      Inter-App Programmability    IAP
      Programming                  Prg
      Advanced Programming         APrg
      References                   Ref

   DDK (Ddk)
      Printers                     DdkPrnt
      Communication                DdkComm
      Network                      DdkNet
      Mouse                        DdkMouse
      Keyboard                     DdkKb
      DMA                          DdkDma
      VPICD                        DdkVpicd
      Hard Drive                   DdkHd
      Floppy Drive                 DdkFd
      VDD                          DdkVdd
      Grabber/WOA                  DdkGrb
      VxD Programming/Misc         DdkMisc

Product-Specific Keywords

You can use the KBKeywords to organize Windows DDK articles or to search for specific groups of Windows DDK 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 Windows DDK 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