Microsoft RPC Programming Guide
By John Shirley & Ward Rosenberry, Digital Equipment Corporation
254 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-070-8, $24.95 (US)

We have just released this guide to Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC),
the glue that holds together MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows NT. It is a
client-server technology -- a way of making programs on two different
systems work together like one.  The advantage of RPC over other
distributing programming techniques is that you can link two systems
together using simple C calls, as in a single-system program.

The most common use for client-server is to combine the graphical display
capabilities of a desk-top PC with the database and number- crunching
power of a large central system.  But peer-to-peer programs can run
equally well.

Like many aspects of Microsoft programming, RPC forms a small world of its
own, with conventions and terms that can be confusing.  But once you
understand the purpose behind each feature, programming with RPC is not
difficult.  This book lays out the concepts and the programming tasks so
that you can use this powerful API.

Microsoft RPC is a new technology based on the RPC used in the Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE).  This book builds on O'Reilly's successful
DCE series.  It provides a solid foundation for programmers learning to
use Microsoft RPC, including:

   -  Controlling communications through the Microsoft Interface
      Definition Languages (MIDL) and the Attribute Configuration
      File (ACF)
   -  How the server advertises itself
   -  How a client chooses a server (binding)
   -  Types of pointers and arrays
   -  Memory management
   -  Administration tasks for an RPC server
   -  Maintaining state through context handles

  This edition covers version 2.0 of Microsoft RPC.  Four complete examples
are included.
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