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Microsoft DirectX 9.0

DirectPlay Addressing


To deliver messages, each participant in a multiplayer game must have a unique address. Addresses can refer to either the computer on which your application is running (device address), or a computer with which your application needs to communicate (host address).

Microsoft?DirectPlay?represents addresses in the form of a URL string. That address string is then encapsulated in a DirectPlay address object that is passed as a parameter in or out of methods such as IDirectPlay8Peer::Connect.

This section describes three ways of handling DirectPlay addresses.



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