Settlement Program Interfaces

Windows API Settlement Program Interfaces

Microsoft Corporation

December 2002

In November 2001, Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice, and nine State Attorneys General agreed to a proposed settlement of the government's antitrust case. On November 1, 2002, the settlement was approved by Judge Kollar-Kotelly and became final on November 12, 2002. For more information (including a comprehensive archive of documents and transcripts of proceedings) about the consent decree, see the Microsoft Press Pass Settlement Proceedings Web page. For more information about how Microsoft has fulfilled its obligations under the consent decree, or if you wish to submit an inquiry or complaint about Microsoft's compliance under the consent decree, please see the Microsoft Settlement Program Web page.

As part of that settlement, Microsoft agreed to document the interfaces used by "Microsoft Middleware" (as defined in the proposed consent decree) to obtain services from the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP desktop client operating systems. The vast majority of these interfaces were already documented among the thousands of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in the Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit (SDK).

Microsoft teams identified a few hundred undocumented Windows interfaces or parameters that were used by one or more of the Microsoft Middleware components. Microsoft's technical writers have documented these interfaces and made them available as APIs in the MSDN Online Library.

These new or updated interface reference pages are listed below and are organized according to functional areas of MSDN where other similar APIs can be found. Each entry in the list includes a link to the documentation in the MSDN Library. Like other Microsoft APIs, code that may help applications use the interfaces is available via the Platform SDK, which is a separate download. To access these interfaces without this code, applications can use the functions LoadLibrary and GetProcAddr. After Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 releases, the Platform SDK will be available on the Microsoft Platform SDK Download Web site.

Component Development—Component Object Model

Processes, Threads, and Apartments

Single-Threaded Apartments

Development (General)—Internationalization

Unicode and Character Set Functions

TranslateCharsetInfo

Graphics and Multimedia—Audio and Video

Functions

WMIsAvailableOffline
WMIsContentProtected

Interfaces

INSNetSourceCreator
IWMPSkinManager
IWMSInternalAdminNetSource
IWMSInternalAdminNetSource2
IWMSInternalAdminNetSource3

Windows Media Device Manager Interfaces

IWMDMDevice2

Graphics and Multimedia—DirectX

DirectX Audio Property Sets

System Property Sets

DirectPlay Interfaces

IDirectPlayNATHelp

DirectShow Interfaces

IAMChannelInfo
IAMExtendedErrorInfo
IAMExtendedSeeking
IAMFilterGraphCallback
IAMGraphBuilderCallback
IAMMediaContent
IAMNetShowConfig
IAMNetShowExProps
IAMNetShowPreroll
IAMNetworkStatus
IDShowPlugin
IMixerOCX
IMixerOCXNotify

Graphics and Multimedia—Windows Multimedia

Multimedia Functions

SndPlaySound

Messaging and Collaboration—Messaging API (MAPI)

MAPI Functions and Related Macros

FgetComponentPath

Messaging and Collaboration—NetMeeting

COM Enumerations

NM_SYSPROP_* Property IDs

Networking and Directory Services—Network Management

Windows Networking Functions

WNetRestoreConnectionW

Networking and Directory Services—Network Protocols

Internet Protocol Helper Functions

GetBestRoute

WinINet Functions

CreateMD5SSOHash
DetectAutoProxyUrl
InternetDeInitializeAutoProxyDll
InternetGetProxyInfo
InternetInitializeAutoProxyDll

WinInet Structures

INTERNET_DIAGNOSTIC_SOCKET_INFO

Windows Sockets Functions

__WSAFDIsSet

Security—Security Zones

Functions

CoInternetCreateSecurityManager
CoInternetCreateZoneManager

Security—Security (General)

Authorization Functions

CredUIReadSSOCredW
CredUIStoreSSOCredW
RtlConvertSidToUnicodeString

Cryptography Functions

CertViewProperties
CryptCATAdminAcquireContext
CryptCATAdminEnumCatalogFromHash
CryptCATAdminReleaseContext
CryptCATCatalogInfoFromContext
CryptUIDlgCertMgr
CryptUIWizDigitalSign
GetEncSChannel
GetFriendlyNameOfCert
WintrustAddActionID
WintrustLoadFunctionPointers
WintrustRemoveActionID
WTHelperGetProvSignerFromChain