Tutorial

This tutorial takes you through the steps required to create a simple, single-client, single-server distributed application from an existing stand-alone application. These steps are:

• Create interface definition and application configuration files.
• Use the MIDL compiler to generate C-language client and server stubs and headers from those files.
• Write a client application that manages its connection to the server.
• Write a server application that contains the actual remote procedures.
• Compile and link these files to the RPC run-time library to produce the distributed application.

The client application passes a character string to the server in a remote procedure call and the server prints the string ("Hello, World") to its standard output.

The complete source files for this example application, with additional code to handle command-line input and to output various status messages to the user, are in the Win32 SDK directory \mstools\samples\rpc\hello and in the Code Samples, RPC section of the Win32 SDK documentation.