Run-Time Routines by Category

This section lists and describes Microsoft run-time library routines by category. For reference convenience, some routines are listed in more than one category. Multibyte-character routines and wide-character routines are grouped with single-byte – character counterparts, where they exist.

This section also provides .NET Framework equivalent methods or classes where available.

The main categories of Microsoft run-time library routines are:

Argument Access	Buffer Manipulation
Byte Classification	Character Classification
Data Alignment	Data Conversion
Debug Routines	Directory Control
Error Handling (CRT)	Exception Handling Routines
File Handling	Floating-Point Support
Input and Output	Internationalization
Memory Allocation	Process and Environment Control
Robustness	Run-Time Error Checking
Searching and Sorting	String Manipulation (CRT)
System Calls	Time Management

See Also

Other Resources

Run-Time Library Reference