Lobby Providers

The lobby provider is a client component dynamic-link library (DLL) supplied by the developer of a lobby server. It implements communications functions with the lobby server as requested by DirectPlay. A lobby client written using the DirectPlay API can interoperate with any lobby server for which a lobby provider DLL is present on the system.

The DirectX SDK installs a lobby provider for use with the test lobby server and client included with the SDK. In order to use it you must register it by double-clicking on Dpldplay.reg in the \Samples\Multimedia\DPlay\Bin folder in your DirectX SDK directory. For more information, see the Bellhop sample.