HOW TO: Search for Web Services Knowledge Base Articles (316840)

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Keywords for Web Services

When you search for articles about Web services in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, you can use the Knowledge Base keywords that are provided in this article to help filter your search results.

Category	KB Keywords
All Web services related articles	kbWebServices
Architecture	kbWebServices kbArchitecture
Debug	kbWebServices kbDebug
Deployment	kbWebServices kbDeployment
Administration	kbWebServices kbSysAdmin
Error messages	kbWebServices kbErrMsg
Performance	kbWebServices kbPerformance
Samples	kbWebServices kbSamples
Scalability	kbWebServices kbScalability
Security	kbWebServices kbSecurity
Visual Basic .NET	kbWebServices kbVBNET
C#	kbWebServices kbCSharpNET
Bug	kbWebServices kbBug
Fix	kbWebServices kbFix

Certain features are specific to Web services such as UDDI, WSDL, and DISCO. If you add the following keywords to your search, you can limit the scope of your search to specific Web Service features.

Category	KB Keywords
Web services SOAP	kbSoap
Web services WSDL	kbnokeyword
Web services UDDI	kbUDDI
Web services DISCO	kbDiscovery
Web services Serialization	kbSerial
Web services Soap Extensions and Soap Header	kbsoap+kbnokeyword
Web services Client Proxy	kbClient
Web services Attributes	kbNativeAttributes

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Maximize Your Search of the Knowledge Base and MSDN

A list of search instructions that help you maximize your search results at each search portal follows:

Note The portals that follow may be updated in the future. Therefore, there may be small differences in the steps.

Knowledge Base Search http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=kbinfo

1. On the Select a Microsoft Product option, click All Microsoft Products from the list.
2. Enter an appropriate combination of relevant Knowledge Base keywords and search criteria in the Search for... text box.
   
   For an example that demonstrates keyword and search criteria combinations, see the keyword examples that are listed at the end of this section.
3. On the Using option, click All of the keywords entered option from the list.
4. In the "Results Limit" section, select the number of the search results that you want returned from the options available.
5. On the Search Type option, click Full Text.
6. Click Anytime from the list of available Date Range options.
7. Click GO to run your search.

MSDN Online Support http://support.microsoft.com/support

1. In the left pane, type an appropriate combination of Knowledge Base keywords and search criteria in the Search for text box.
   
   For an example that demonstrates keyword and search criteria combinations, see the keyword examples that are listed at the end of this section.
2. Click Knowledge Base from the list of available filter options.
3. Click GO to run your search.

MSDN Online Search http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/search.aspx?st=a

1. In the Search for text box of the "Search MSDN.Microsoft.com" section, enter an appropriate combination of Knowledge Base keywords and search criteria.
   
   For an example that demonstrates keyword and search criteria combinations, see the keyword examples that are listed at the end of this section.
2. Click GO to run your search.

Keyword Search Examples:

The examples that follow demonstrate how specific Knowledge Base keywords can be used in conjunction with additional criteria when you do a search.

• kbWebServices - returns all Web services articles
• kbWebServices kbDebug - returns all Web services debugging articles
• kbWebServices management - returns all Web services articles that discuss management
  
  Note "Management" is not a keyword. The word "management" is used as an additional criterion word to enhance search results.)

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