# HOWTO: Search for Win32 SDK Articles Using KBKeywords

Last reviewed: November 12, 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.

## MORE INFORMATION

### 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             KbLanMan
          NetBIOS                      KbNetBIOS
          Networking Misc
          RAS APIs                     KbRAS
          RPC                          KbRPC
          SNMP                         KbSNMP
          TC/PIP                       NtwkTcpip
          WNet APIs                    KbWNet
          Windows Sockets              KbWinsock

       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

> Additional query words: dskbguide bucket keywords
> Keywords : kbNTOS400 kbNTOS310 kbNTOS350 kbNTOS351 kbWinOS95 kbWinOS98 kbWin32s kbNetGrp kbAPI kbTAPI kbSDKPlatform kbkeyword kbnetwork
> Version : WINNT:3.1,3.5,3.51;
> Issue type : kbhowto
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Last reviewed: November 12, 1998
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