HOWTO: Search for Windows SDK Articles Using KBKeywords

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 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 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows collection.

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Microsoft Windows SDK KBKeywords Major and Minor Keywords

Each KB article in the Windows SDK collection may contain one or more product-specific keywords (called KBKeywords) that place the article in an appropriate Windows 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 GDI display issue articles by using GdiDisplay 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 network issues, query on Ntwk*. 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
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------

   GDI                           Gdi*
      Bitmaps                    GdiBmp
      Cursors/Icons              GdiCurico
      DCs                        GdiDc
      Display                    GdiDisplay
      Drawing                    GdiDrw
      Fonts                      GdiFnt
      Metafiles                  GdiMeta
      GDI Misc                   GdiMisc
      Palettes/Colors            GdiPal
      Brushes/Pens               GdiPnbr
      Printing                   GdiPrn
      Screen Saver               GdiScrsav
      TrueType                   GdiTt

   KERNEL                        Kr*
      Comm APIs                  KrCommapi
      Compiler/Run-time          KrComplr
      Debugging                  KrDebug
      DLLs                       KrDll
      MS-DOS Int Functions       KrDosInt
      DPMI                       KrDpmi
      Disk                       KrDsk
      File I/O                   KrFileIO
      Floating Point             KrFltPt
      ISR/TSR/Interrupts         KrIsrTsr
      Kernel Misc                KrMisc
      Memory Management          KrMm
      Memory Models              KrModls
      ToolHelp                   KrToolHlp
      Tasks/Instances            KrTsksIns
      WinOldApps                 KrWoa

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

   MULTIMEDIA
      CD-ROM                     MMCDROM
      MM File I/O Services       MMIO
      Joystick                   MMJoy
      Midi                       MMMidi
      Sound Card Mixer Control   MMMixer
      Multimedia Timers          MMTimer
      Video for Windows (VFW)    MMVideo
      Waveform Audio             MMWave
      Miscellaneous              MMMisc
      Viewer                     MdkView

   MISC
      SDK Misc                   GenSDK
      International Issues       KBIntlDev
      Setup/Install              Setins

   NETWORKING                    Ntwk*
      Networking Misc            NtwkMisc
      NetBIOS                    NtwkNetBios
      Named Pipes                NtwkNmPipe
      RAS APIs                   NtwkRAS
      RPC                        NtwkRpc
      TC/PIP                     NtwkTcpip
      WNet APIs                  NtwkWinnet
      Windows Sockets            NtwkWinsock

   OLE 1.0                       LeOne*
      Clients                    LeOneCli
      Servers                    LeOneSvr
      Object Handlers            LeOneOh

   OLE 2.0                       LeTwo*
      Containers                 LeTwoCli
      Servers                    LeTwoSvr
      Object Handlers            LeTwoOh
      Applications               LeTwoApp
      Architecture               LeTwoArc
      Automation                 LeTwoAto
      Component Object Model     LeTwoCom
      Compound Document          LeTwoCdt
      Data Presentation          LeTwoPrs
      Documentation              LeTwoDoc
      Drag/Drop & Clipboard      LeTwoDdc
      InPlace Activation         LeTwoInp
      Linking and Naming         LeTwoLnk
      Other                      LeTwoOth
      Persistant Storage         LeTwoPst
      Samples/Tools              LeTwoTls
      UI Model                   LeTwoUim

   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
      W4P applets                WpenApps
      control panel apps         WpenCpl
      PEN UI                     WpenPenUI
      Gestures                   WpenGestures
      Keyboard                   WpenKeyboard
      Pen Misc                   WpenMisc

   TOOLS                         Tls*
      Compress/Expand            TlsComExp
      Compatibility              TlsCompat
      Debuggers Misc             TlsDbg
      Debug Windows              TlsDbgWin
      Demo Engine                TlsDem
      Dialog Editor              TlsDlg
      Dr. Watson                 TlsDrWatson
      SDK files                  TlsFls
      Font Editor                TlsFnt
      HeapWalker                 TlsHeapWalk
      Help Compiler              TlsHlp
      Image Editor               TlsImg
      MAPSYM                     TlsMapSym
      Tools Misc                 TlsMisc
      MS Setup                   TlsMss
      Profiler                   TlsPrf
      Resource Compiler          TlsRc
      SDKPaint                   TlsSdkPaint
      Hotspot Editor             TlsShg
      Spy                        TlsSpy
      Stress                     TlsStr
      SYMDEB                     TlsSym
      WDEB386                    TlsWdeb

   USER                          Usr*
      Clipboard                  UsrClp
      Classes                    UsrCls
      Common Dialogs             UsrCmnDlg
      Carets                     UsrCrt
      Controls                   UsrCtl
      DDE                        UsrDde
      Dialogs/Message Boxes      UsrDlgs
      Drag & Drop                UsrDnd
      Extension Libraries        UsrExt
      File Formats               UsrFmt
      Hooks                      UsrHks
      INI files                  UsrIni
      Input-Mouse/Keyboard       UsrInp
      Localization/Intntl.       UsrLoc
      MDI                        UsrMdi
      Menus/Accelerators         UsrMen
      User Misc                  UsrMisc
      Messaging/Yielding         UsrMsg
      Network DDE                UsrNetDde
      Owner Draw                 UsrOwn
      Painting                   UsrPnt
      Resources                  UsrRes
      System                     UsrSys
      Timers                     UsrTim
      Window Manager             UsrWndw

Product-Specific Keywords

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