Open Data Services Programming

In presenting Open Data Services programming topics, this chapter:

• Provides a brief overview of the types of functions, the primary data structures, and all the include files that make up the Open Data Services API.
• Provides a brief overview of memory management options, thread processing options, and security options that the Win32 API for Windows NT supports.
• Describes how to respond to Open Data Services events by writing code for a set of event handlers and installing the handlers.
• Describes how to respond to Open Data Services errors by writing code for the error handlers and installing the handlers.
• Uses sections of sample code to illustrate the process of initializing Open Data Services server applications and to demonstrate the use of event handlers and error handlers.