Microsoft DirectX 8.0 (Visual Basic)

Lobbyable Applications

Lobbyable applications are designed to work with a lobby client based on Microsoft® DirectPlay®. While a lobby client can use DirectPlay to launch any application, lobbyable applications have a number of advantages.

In short, DirectPlay virtually eliminates the need for game-specific or lobby client-specific communication code. You can use a standard API for everything with little or no modification for the particular game or lobby client.

This section discusses some of the general features of a lobbyable application. For more information, see Launching a Lobbyable Application.

For a discussion of implementation details, see Implementing a Lobbyable Application or SDK samples such as SimplePeer, or StagedPeer.