Article ID: 249726
Article Last Modified on 5/15/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit-January 2000 Edition, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q249726
SUMMARY
When searching for Microsoft Knowledge Base articles concerning COM and DCOM, you can use the Knowledge Base keywords provided in the following tables as criteria to help filter your search results.
MORE INFORMATION
Knowledge Base keywords for COM and DCOM
| Category | KB keywords |
| Component Object Model Fundamentals | kbCOMt |
| Distributed COM Fundamentals | kbDCOM |
| Events | kbActiveXEvents |
| Authentication | kbAuthentication |
| Apartment Model | kbApartment |
| Asynchronous Calls | kbAsynchCall |
| Method Call Canceling | kbCallCancel |
| Client Application in Client/Server Context | kbClient |
| Client/Server Applications | kbClientServer |
| Sample Code Not Compilable by Itself | kbCodeSnippet |
| COM Internet Services | kbCOMIS |
| Component Categories | kbCompCat |
| Connecting Clients to Servers | kbConnectivity |
| Connection Points | kbConnPts |
| DCOM Configuration Utility (DCOMCnfg.exe) | kbDCOMCnfg |
| Debugging Code, Not Troubleshooting | kbDebug |
| Application Deployment Issues | kbDeployment |
| Error Message Follow-up Information | kbErrMsg |
| RPC Endpoints (Ports) | kbEndpoint |
| Interface Definition Language | kbIDL |
| Inproc Handler | kbHandler |
| Inproc Server (.dll's) | kbInprocSvr |
| Local Servers (.exe's) | kbLocalSvr |
| Marshaling | kbMarshal |
| Microsoft Interface Definition Language/Compiler | kbMIDL |
| STA (Single Threaded Apartment) Message Filters | kbMsgFilter |
| Network Protocol | kbNetProtocol |
| Object Pooling | kbObjectPooling |
| Network Pipe or Named Pipe APIs | kbPipes |
| Remote Access Server (RAS) | kbRAS |
| Registry Entries | kbRegistry |
| Remote Procedure Calls | kbRPC |
| Compilable Code Samples Created by Support | kbSample |
| Windows 32-bit SDK | kbSDKWin32 |
| Relating to Scalability of a Solution | kbScalability |
| Security | kbSecurity |
| Windows NT System Services | kbService |
| Multithreading | kbThread |
| Thread Synchronization Objects | kbThreadSync |
| User Defined Data Types | kbUserDT |
Additional useful Knowledge Base keywords
| Category | KB Keywords |
| Third Party issues | kb3rdparty |
| Cluster Server (Wolfpack) | kbClustServ |
| Documentation Fixes | kbDocFix |
| Firewalls | kbFirewall |
| Written by Developer Support COM SDK group | kbGrpCOM |
| Mastering COM | kbMastCOM |
| Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) | kbMTS |
| Proxy Server | kbProxyServer |
| Terminal Server | kbTermServ |
| Windows Distributed InterNet Architecture | kbWinDNA |
| Network Load Balancing (NLB) (or WLBS) | kbNLB |
Keywords for troubleshooting and performance
| Category | KB Keyword |
| Administrative | kbSysAdmin |
| Visual Studio Application Performance Explorer | kbAppPerfExpl |
| Checklists | kbCheckList |
| Debug Tools | kbDebugTool |
| Network Monitor | kbNetMon |
| Performance Information | kbPerformance |
| Performance Monitoring (Not Profiling) | kbPerfMon |
| Analysis Tools that Assist in Improving Performance | kbPerformanceTool |
| Troubleshooting | kbTroubleShoot |
Keywords for specific operating systems
| Category | KB Keywords |
| Windows Operating System | kbOSWin |
| Windows CE OS | kbOSWinCE |
| Windows 95 Operating System | kbOSWin95 |
| Windows 98 Operating System | kbOSWin98 |
| Windows NT Operating System | kbOSNT |
| Windows NT 4.0 Operating System | kbOSNT400 |
| Windows 2000 Operating System | kbOSWin2000 |
| Specific to UNIX Platform | kbOSUNIX |
Searching instructions
Note The portals below may be updated at a future date; therefore, the steps may be slightly different from what is indicated here.
The following steps detail search procedures for these two Microsoft search portals:
- Knowledge Base search
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=kbinfo
- MSDN Online Support Search
http://msdn.microsoft.com/support/
Note Click Search Knowledge Base.
- Click Advanced Search to open the Advanced Search page.
- In the Search Product list, you can either choose a broad scope by selecting All Products or you can refine your search to particular technology or product.
- Select All of the words entered in the Search Type list.
- In the For box, use a combination of Knowledge Base keywords and search criteria.
Examples:
kbCOM - will return all COM articles
kbDCOM - will return all DCOM articles
kbDCOM kbSecurity - will return all DCOM articles discussing security issues.
kbDCOM kbSecurity Access Permission - will return all DCOM articles discussing security issues that mention access permissions. Note that "Access Permission" is not a keyword, it is simply additional criteria.
- Click the Run the Search button to run your search.
The following steps detail search procedures for:
Microsoft.com Advanced Search
http://search.microsoft.com/advancedsearch.aspx
- Type one or more Knowledge Base keywords in the Search Microsoft.com for box.
Examples:
kbCOM - will return all COM articles.
kbDCOM - will return all DCOM articles.
kbDCOM kbSecurity - will return all DCOM articles that discuss security issues.
kbDCOM kbSecurity Access Permission - will return all DCOM articles that discuss security issues and mention access permissions. Note that "Access Permission" is not a keyword. It is simply additional criteria.
- Select English in the Search pages in droplist.
- Select Knowledge Base (for support) in the Search Only These Sites list.
- Click the Search button to run the search.
REFERENCES
For more information on searching the Knowledge Base, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
242971 How to use the Developer Support Microsoft Knowledge Base
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