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How to Search for Windows DDK Articles by KB Subcategory
Article ID: Q118331
Revision Date: 12-APR-1995

The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) for Windows, version 3.1

SUMMARY

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

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Windows DDK KBSubcategory Major and Minor Keywords

Each KB article in the Windows DDK collection may contain one or more product-specific subcategory keywords (called KBSubcategory keywords) that places the article in an appropriate Windows DDK category. Each 

KBSubcategory word 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 KBSubcategory keywords. The minor topics are in the indented list under each major topic. 

Major Topic
Minor Topic KBSubcategory Keyword 
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 KBSubcategory keywords to organize Windows DDK articles or
to search for specific groups of Windows DDK articles. For information
about KBSubcategory keywords 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 category keyword (called a KBCategory keyword). The

KBCategory keywords are standard throughout the Microsoft Knowledge Base,
appearing in all KB articles, regardless of product. You can use the
KBCategory keywords to organize all KB articles or to search for articles
across several Microsoft products. For more information about these
KBCategory keywords, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

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

Additional reference words: DSKBGuide 3.10 kbkeyword kbsubcats
KBCategory: kbref
KBSubcatgory:



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