P

partially bound handle

A binding handle that does not include endpoint information. See also fully bound handle.

pickling

See serialization.

pipe

An IDL type constructor that supports transmission of an open-ended stream of data between client and server applications.

procedure serialization

Data serialization that uses a MIDL-generated serialization stub to accomplish encoding and decoding of one or more types with a single procedure call. Procedure serialization is accomplished by applying the encode and decode attributes to a function prototype in the ACF file. See also type serialization.

protocol sequence

A character string that represents a valid combination of an RPC protocol, a network layer protocol, and a transport layer protocol. For example, the protocol sequence ncacn_ip_tcp describes an NCA connection over an Internet Protocol with a Transmission Control Protocol as transport.

proxy stub

MIDL-generated C or C++ language source code that contains all the functions necessary for a custom OLE interface.