Using Asynchronous RPC with DCE Pipes

Microsoft RPC supports the use of DCE pipes. Although they share a similar name, DCE pipes are unrelated to named pipes. Named pipes are a transport protocol. DCE pipes are a protocol-independent method of client/server communication.

This section presents a discussion of RPC using asynchronous DCE pipes. It is divided into the following topics:

For a sample asynchronous pipe RPC application, see the FileRep sample in the Platform Software Development Kit (SDK).