Platform SDK: DirectX

Tutorial 2: Supporting Lobby Launch

This tutorial shows how an application can support external launching by a lobby and connection with a lobby-launched session. An application using these techniques can be launched either by a lobby or by the user, and will automatically join an application session created in the lobby.

For an overview of these topics, see Building Lobby-Aware Applications.

The tutorial is divided into the following steps:

The sample code is based on the Chat sample.