Binding Handles

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