NetShow Theater Server Event Notification and Authorization API

Microsoft® NetShow™ Theater Server provides an API for developing event notification and authorization plug-in components. These components extend the features of a server running NetShow Theater Server by providing tools to authorize the playing of content, monitoring of the state of the server, and auditing transactions. This overview explains the concept of authorization, and how a server and authorization and notification components interact with each other. The topics are covered in the following sections.