Namespace List

Here is a list of all namespaces with brief descriptions:

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Ncf	Corefoundation namespace
Nmutate
Ncrypt	Crypt - the CryptoAPI namespace (Security's counterpart on Windows)
Ndx	Dynax driver framework interface namespace
Nabstract
Nasio	ASIO namespace
Nclient
Nerror	ASIO error codes as dx::os_result, each with the text the SDK gives it - dx_pass_asio throws through this map
Nto
Nfrom
Nproperty	Where Windows lists the ASIO drivers of the machine - the registry root a client enumerates and a service registers its own driver under
Nservice	Service interface namespace
Nto
Ncolor	SGR sequences, by their effect; dx::themed picks between two of them
Nbackground
Nbright
Nbackground
Nfast
Nslow
Ncoreaudio	CoreAudio, both sides of it: dx::coreaudio is the HAL client - a device the system published, whoever drives it - and dx::coreaudio::server is the plugin that publishes one. Settings are HAL properties here, promoted over dx::coreaudio::promoted::property
Npod	Puppet device: an empty endpoint, given life by the existence and the streaming of its counterpart at the other end of the stream
Npromoted
Nserver	Driver side of CoreAudio: the plugin the HAL loads, its devices, pins and controls. dx::coreaudio itself is the client side - the two never meet in one object
Nstream
Ncoremidi	MIDI client over CoreMIDI, which speaks Universal MIDI Packets since macOS 11 - so this bus's rings carry UMP, and a MIDITimeStamp is dx::timestamp itself, converted nowhere
Npromoted
Nserver	Server - dynax coremidi::server interface namespace
Ncrypto	Cryptographic primitives a signature check takes, kernel and user mode alike: no allocation, no exception, no platform
Ncursor
Ndaemon
Nder	ASN.1 DER, walked in place: what a certificate's fields and a license's private extensions take
Ndll	Registry names a COM server is registered under - what the ASIO driver's own registration writes
Nerase
Nline
Nfirewire	IEEE 1394: what user mode and the kernel share
Nohci	1394 Open Host Controller Interface, release 1.1
Nphy	PHY's registers (IEEE 1394a-2000 4.3.10), by their bits
Nrom	Configuration ROM (IEEE 1212-2001 7, IEEE 1394-2008 16.3.2)
Nfourchar	Four character codes of the OS audio APIs: to::string prints the printable bytes and the numeric value of the others, from::string packs four bytes back into the word
Nfrom
Nto
Ngui	Control panel's widgets over JUCE: each one takes the value it edits and a listener, writes the device's desc back on a change and follows the desc when something else changes it - so a panel is composed of these, never of event handling of its own
Ninstall	Driver package installation namespace
Nioctl	IOCTLs namespace
Ndevice	Device IOCTLs namespace
Ndriver	Driver IOCTLs namespace: the host's requests to a driver that makes its devices itself - DriverKit has no software device API
Nservice	Service's IOCTLs beside dx::ioctl's own (log, listen): what a client asks the service's driver and devices
Nstream	Stream IOCTLs namespace
Nclock	Stream::clock domain IOCTLs namespace
Ntransport	Stream::transport settings IOCTLs namespace
Nusb	USB IOCTLs namespace
Nlicensing	License: an X.509 certificate the product's root signed, its attributes private extensions
Nmap
Nmidi
Nservices	Windows MIDI Services: the MIDI service of Windows 11 (midisrv), its endpoints spoken to in Universal MIDI Packets through the App SDK (Windows.Devices.Midi2)
Nump	Universal MIDI Packet: whole 32 bit words, one to four a packet, the message type in the top nibble of the first word saying how many, the group in the nibble below it
Npci	Verbs of a PCI device as its system names them
Nplatform	Machine's identity a license may be bound to (dx_common.cpp)
Npower
Npresent
Nprocess	Process
Nproxy	OS proxy interface class
Nstream	Stream interface
Nredirect	Redirect std IO: a stream's distributor (dx::redirect::indent::streambuf) hands every write to the sinks joined to it - any std::streambuf: the stream's own, a file's, a line sink's (dx::redirect::line) - which join and leave in any order, each for its object's life (dx::redirect::join)
Nplatform
Nregistry	Device that is an IOService of the registry, without a driver connection of its own - what a proxy device derives its identity and its properties from
Nservice	Service interface namespace
Nclient
Nplatform
Nstream
Nshared
Nlockfree
Nsmbios	SMBIOS tables as the firmware interface hands them out (RawSMBIOSData: GetSystemFirmwareTable 'RSMB', WMI MSSmBios_RawSMBiosTables - one layout), walked in place
Nstream	Generic stream interface
Nbus	Bus a device hangs on, as the system reports it: the transport type of a CoreAudio device (desc::bus), named by IOKit's own list where it names one and by CoreAudio's else
Nfrom
Nto
Nchannel	Generic stream::channel interface
Ndirection
Nfrom
Nto
Nengine
Nplug	What a pin is wired to - the plug on the device, as a system names it: CoreAudio's terminal type (pin::plug), Windows' endpoint form factor, and dxd's own for what neither names. A USB device answers its terminal id instead, which from::usb turns into one of these at the source, so the field carries one vocabulary
Nfrom
Nto
Nrole
Nshared	Shared stream namespace
Ntest	Manual exerciser: one dx::test::driver per client bus, each a dx::parser of its own, handed to dx::select. It prints rather than asserts - the output is the verdict
Nmidi
Nservice
Nstream	Streaming tests over a bus's command set
Nsurprise	Device tree arrival and removal under load: what a replug does to a running session, without a hand at the cable
Nusb
Nvirtuel
Nwasapi
Nthread	Thread
Ndebugger	Whether a debugger is attached to this process, and a wait until one is - a breakpoint in a driver that is launched by the system, never started by hand
Ntrace
Nindent
Nusb	Verbs of a USB device as its system names them
N__	Standard descriptors with what the class descriptors add to them: an endpoint and an interface as the enumeration read them, class descriptors and, for an interface, its endpoints in tow
Naudio	Generic USB audio 1.0
Nto
Nclock	USB clock source interface namespace
Nezusb	Cypress EZ-USB firmware download, shared with the kernel
Nisoc	Isochronous transfer as both platforms describe it, frame by frame
Nplatform
Nstream	USB user mode streaming interface namespace
Nterminal
Nvirtuel	In-process bus: devices exist in the preference store alone, no OS registration of any kind. It exercises the shared stream machinery - device, pins, groups, engine - without a plugin, a service or a kernel driver, and its desc types are the generic default other buses fall back to
Nstream
Nwasapi	WASAPI namespace
Nclient
Nx509	Fields of an X.509 certificate a license check reads, off its DER: kernel and user mode alike
Nxpc
Ndxd	Dynax driver framework kernel namespace
Nabstract
Naudio	AudioDriverKit binding - the DriverKit counterpart of portcls/wavert
Ndebug	Names of a setup packet's fields, for the trace of a control transfer
Ndmus	Dmus namespace
Ndoubly	Semi lock free doubly linked list: an item knows its list and leaves it in its own destructor, which the singly linked one cannot - what a registration of unknown lifetime hangs in
Nlinked
Nabstract
Nfirewire	IEEE 1394
Nplatform	Dynax driver framework kernel namespace
Nioctl	Kernel IOCTLs
Nkmdf	KMDF bound device framework: the WDF driver model beside plain WDM (dxd::platform), on the same contract (dxd::driver/device/client)
Npci	PCI devices on KMDF
Nproperty
Nlinked	Lock free singly linked list: a push and a pop with no lock at all, which makes it a stack - what is pushed last comes off first, so nothing that needs its order kept walks it (dxd/CLAUDE.md, the isoc completions)
Nabstract
Nmodels	Product's models as the lines of its inf and plist templates
Nmultichannel
Npci	PCI devices
Nplatform	Platform branch: DriverKit
Nportcls	PortCls: the driver form owning the WDM dispatch, audio subdevices on WaveRT and DMus miniports
Nrange	Range namespace
Nstreaming	Generic streaming device layer, shared by every bus and both device frameworks
Nusb	Dynax driver framework kernel namespace
Nstream	Dynax driver framework kernel namespace
Nvirtuel
Nstream	Virtual streaming device, the kernel's counterpart of user mode's dx::virtuel::stream::device
Nwavert	WaveRT namespace
Nwdm	WDM++ - windows helper classes
Nproperty	Unified device property model access on a PDO
Nio	Io - IOKit namespace
Nsc	Sc - system configuration namespace
Nsec	Sec - security namespace