PROPSYS Functions

The large table on this page is this study’s master list of functions that appear in the export directory of any known version of PROPSYS. It gives for each function just brief summaries of the applicable PROPSYS versions and of the function’s status with respect to Microsoft’s documentation. Additional explanatory notes follow the table.

Notes

Familiarity is assumed with the Reading Guide for the Windows Shell Study.

Names

Function names are reproduced from the export directory of the PROPSYS.DLL executable, wherever possible. For functions that are not exported by name (i.e., are exported only by ordinal) from any known PROPSYS 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 PROPSYS version, then even if later versions also export the function by name, the ordinal persists and is given in brackets immediately after the function’s name.

Versions

The PROPSYS 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 builds of a version if no counter-example is yet known.

Documentation Status

Except where otherwise stated, the reference for all comment on Microsoft’s documentation is the January 2007 edition of the Windows Vista Software Development Kit (as distributed by Microsoft on MSDN Disc 3667).