O'Reilly Releases RPC Guide
Sara Winge
on interoperability issues. I've not yet seen this book, so
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Microsoft RPC Programming Guide
By John Shirley & Ward Rosenberry, Digital Equipment Corporation
254 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-070-8, $24.95 (US)
We have just released this guide to Microsoft Remote Procedure Call
(RPC), the glue that holds together MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows NT.
It is a client-server technology -- a way of making programs on two
different systems work together like one. The advantage of RPC over
other distributing programming techniques is that you can link two
systems together using simple C calls, as in a single-system program.
The most common use for client-server is to combine the graphical
display capabilities of a desk-top PC with the database and number-
crunching power of a large central system. But peer-to-peer programs
can run equally well.
Like many aspects of Microsoft programming, RPC forms a small world
of its own, with conventions and terms that can be confusing. But once
you understand the purpose behind each feature, programming with RPC is
not difficult. This book lays out the concepts and the programming tasks
so that you can use this powerful API.
Microsoft RPC is a new technology based on the RPC used in the
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). This book builds on O'Reilly's
successful DCE series. It provides a solid foundation for programmers
learning to use Microsoft RPC, including:
- Controlling communications through the Microsoft Interface
Definition Languages (MIDL) and the Attribute Configuration File (ACF)
- How the server advertises itself
- How a client chooses a server (binding)
- Types of pointers and arrays
- Memory management
- Administration tasks for an RPC server
- Maintaining state through context handles
This edition covers version 2.0 of Microsoft RPC. Four complete
examples are included.
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