Further General Information

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

• For information on NDIS, see the Microsoft® Windows NT® version 4.0 DDK. This DDK contains most NDIS information Broadcast Architecture developers require. Broadcast Architecture relies on NDIS version 5.0, a recent update; for any information specific to NDIS 5.0, see the NDIS 5.0 specification.
• For information on Windows base services, including the Microsoft® Win32® application programming interface (API), see the Windows Base Services section of the Microsoft® Platform SDK. For information on the Win32 error function GetLastError, see the Debugging and Error Handling section within the Windows Base Services section.
• For information on WinSock version 2.0, see the Windows Sockets 2 section in the Platform SDK.
• For information on WDM stream class drivers and filters, including those that are part of the Microsoft® Windows® 98 operating system, see the device-driver documentation for Windows 98. This documentation is provided as part of the Windows 98 beta program.
• For information on how to create show enhancements and other content data, see the Design Kit for the Microsoft® Broadcast Architecture compact disc.
• For information on DirectShow, including information on constructing a custom filter graph and creating new DirectShow filters, see the Microsoft DirectShow SDK section in the Platform SDK.
• For information on video card requirements for Broadcast Architecture, see Hardware Design Guide for Microsoft® Windows® 95, available from Microsoft Press®.
• For information on the Component Object Model (COM) and on Microsoft® ActiveX® technologies, see the COM and ActiveX Object Services section of the Platform SDK.
• For information on Data Access Objects (DAO), see the DAO SDK documentation in the Platform SDK.
• For information on Structured Query Language (SQL), see the Microsoft® Jet Database SQL Reference in the DAO SDK documentation.
• For information on the Microsoft® NetShow™ server, see the Microsoft NetShow section of the Platform SDK, or the http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/ World Wide Web site.
• For information about the Task Scheduler feature of Microsoft® Windows® 98, see the Task Scheduler section of the Platform SDK.