Determining Which Discussion Is for You

Most developers of QOS-enabled applications will find their requirements met within the QOS API, and the requisite knowledge of components will fall largely under the Application-Driven QOS Components section. Thus, reading through that overview material, combined with the API reference information in QOS Reference, should provide nearly all of the information necessary to develop QOS-aware applications.

There is more information in other sections of QOS documentation that facilitates the development of granular Traffic Control. For example, that found in the Network-Driven QOS Components section, can provide explanations of the underlying technologies and programmatic reference to interfaces available for such efforts. In such circumstances, a reading of the Application-Driven and Network-Driven sections is suggested.

For development of policy module components, such as policy-based decision services intended to provide network resource–admission services, the Policy-Driven sections are recommended.

For a complete understanding of QOS and its components, as they are implemented and interact within the Microsoft® Windows 2000® (and Microsoft® Windows® 98) framework, reading all of the overview sections is recommended.