Run-Time Routines by Category

 

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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 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
System Calls Time Management

See Also

C Run-Time Library Reference