IERTUTIL Functions

The table on this page is this study’s master list of functions that appear in the export directory of any known 32-bit build of IERTUTIL. It gives for each function just brief summaries of the applicable IERTUTIL versions and of the function’s status with respect to Microsoft’s documentation (not that there’s much to say on this point, given that Microsoft documents no more than a handful). Additional explanatory notes follow the table.

Notes

Names

Function names are reproduced from the export directory of the IERTUTIL.DLL executable, wherever possible. For functions that are not exported by name (i.e., are exported only by ordinal) from any known IERTUTIL version, names are inferred from symbol files that Microsoft supplies for customer support. If a function is known as an ordinal-only export from at least one IERTUTIL version, then the ordinal is given in brackets immediately after the function’s name.

Versions

The IERTUTIL versions shown for each function are inferred from a study of known releases, making reasonable assumptions about likely continuity, especially to suppose that a function will exist in future versions or that a function exists in all (released) builds of a version if no counter-example is yet known.

Documentation Status

Except where otherwise stated, the reference version for Microsoft’s documentation is the January 2007 edition of the Windows Vista Software Development Kit (as distributed by Microsoft on MSDN Disc 3667). There is no one section for IERTUTIL functions. Indeed, I have not yet found anywhere that Microsoft documents any functions as being exported from IERTUTIL. That a function is not marked above as “documented” (or is marked on other pages as “undocumented”) does not mean for certain that Microsoft does not document it, just that I haven’t yet found where.

A few functions are not documented specifically as exports from IERTUTIL but fit some general cases. These are indicated by enclosing the documentation status in brackets.

Some functions are shown as documented but with COMCTL32 in brackets. Strictly speaking, these are undocumented as IERTUTIL exports. Each has an earlier implementation—indeed, typically from as long ago as 1995—as an export from COMCTL32 and it is this earlier implementation, not the one in IERTUTIL, that Microsoft documents. None of these were documented until 2002. One was still not documented in mid-2006. For details of their documentation status before IERTUTIL, look them up as COMCTL32 functions.