Creating a Receiver Application

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

If the Generic File Receiver application proves insufficient for the needs of your application, you can create a custom receiver application.

The application must be able to appropriate process the /J, /IPD, and /IPL options in the command line passed to it by the Task Scheduler, as described in Receiver Application Command Line.

Typically, a receiver application may ignore the /J option. The application must open a Windows Sockets (WinSock) socket using the address specified by /IPD and bind it to the address specified by /IPL. The application can then receive data over the broadcast connection and process it any way that is desired.

The receiving application may access various attributes that were included in the original announcement, as described in Retrieving Announcement Attributes.