A complete sample consisting of a Channel Agent and all supporting options collection tools comes with this release of the Site Server 3.0 SDK. The sample can be found in the "Samples\Microsoft Site Server\Push\Sample Channel Agent\Agent" directory from the location of the SDK install. The sections below outline the key points found in the sample.
Other examples of Channel Agents can be found in the "C:\microsoft site server\bin" directory. This is where the pre-installed agents and admin scripts are located. One can study these to get a picture of how the various agents are implemented.
Development Environment Prerequisites
Most of the sample can be viewed with the beloved NotePad text editor. A C/C++ compiler is required to compile the COM Property Page implementation. Make sure you have the Unicode libraries installed before you attempt to compile it. A Microsoft Developer Studio project is included with the sample should that format be desired.