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Binding is the process of creating a logical connection between a client program and a server program. The information that composes the binding between client and server is represented by a structure called a binding handle.
A binding handle is analogous to a file handle that the fopen C run-time library function returns, or a window handle that the function CreateWindow returns.
As with these handles, your application cannot directly access and manipulate the information in the binding handle. The information in a binding handle data structure is available only to the RPC run-time libraries. You provide the handle, the run-time libraries access and manipulate the appropriate data.
This section presents a discussion on binding handles in the following topics:
- Types of Binding Handles
- Client-Side Binding
- Server-Side Binding
- Fully and Partially Bound Handles
- Interpreting Binding Information
- Microsoft RPC Binding-Handle Extensions
- Binding-Handle Functions
- The RPC Name Service Database