Microsoft RPC Programming Guide

by Digital Equipment Corporation, John Shirley, Ward Rosenberry

Book Overview

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565920708
• ISBN13: 9781565920705
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good book to learn the foundations of COM

COM is built on top of RPC. This book is a bit dated, but still a good guide for learning the technology that COM is based on. COM will make much more sense if you take a little time to learn RPC first.

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The most cogent guide to RPC programming I have seen.

The authors take the reader from the very first steps to rather complex applications of Remote Procedure Calls. Along the way, they explain how RPC works, and why it is one of the better tools for implementing true client/server systems. Despite a very few factual errors (the page on memory allocation using RpcSs contains one) and despite a too-short description of when to use which memory allocator, I rate this book at nine out of ten. For a perfect ten, the authors will have to include material on secure, authenticated, RPC, too. If you do serious DCE or MS RPC programming, or if you are trying to learn the ropes: Try to find a copy. And no, mine is not for sale. ;-)