DirectPlay The DirectPlay component provides a networking Application Programming Interface (API) that can enable any application to operate over both a peer-to-peer and client/server topology. It provides a wide array of session and host management features that simplifies network programming. Through its modular service provider architecture, it provides a level of abstraction to various underlying networking components, so the developer does not need to manage the specifics of the network transport while maintaining low latency and high performance.

DirectPlay operates under the following network protocols:

TCP/IP (IPv4)

Telephony API (TAPI)

Serial/Modem

Component Configuration

There are no configuration requirements for this component.

Special Notes

The service providers require the underlying transport modules to be present. The following list shows the requirements:

TCP/IP (IPv4)

  • Winsock and its dependent modules
  • TCP/IP driver

TAPI

  • TAPI and its dependent modules

Serial/Modem

  • Serial port driver

For More Information

DirectPlay 8 is part of the Microsoft DirectX technologies and can be found in the DirectX8 software development kit (SDK). For more information and to download the computer version of the SDK, see this Microsoft Web site.

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