PDC Presentations: Communications Technology
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco, CA (March 12-14, 1996)
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You'll find the slides, papers, and samples on communications technology presented at the PDC in the zipped files below. (Presentations are in Microsoft® PowerPoint® format.
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Overview of communications architecture, beyond Windows® 95: As we go into the future, Windows is designed to be a premier communications platform for end users, and a fully featured and robust development platform for communications applications developers. See how the Windows architecture integrates support for TAPI, Conferencing, Speech, and other communications technologies. Drilling down, this session introduces the Windows Telephony API and the communications functions of the Win32® API as implemented in Microsoft® Windows 95, including discussion of using these APIs in data communications applications programs. Includes initializing and shutting down TAPI, identifying modems, preparing line for use, dialing, answering, disconnecting, setting call parameters, phone number translation, and many additional details. Assumes familiarity with modems and data communication topics and a basic understanding of Windows programming. Learn how to leverage the Windows 95 Universal Modem Driver (Unimodem) and share ports with other data applications.
This presentation focuses on Microsoft's ActiveX conferencing platform and its commitment to standards-based multimedia communication over the Internet. Topics covered include:
- Why standards are critical to a real-time communication platform.
- Microsoft's proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for a user location protocol that enables communicating applications to dynamically discover IP addresses of viable communicating peers across the Internet.
- Audio capabilities of the ActiveX conferencing platform.
- APIs that enable applications to establish conference calls, plug in custom codecs, and leverage services such as application sharing, whiteboarding, chat, file transfer, and data transfer.
- The ActiveX conferencing architecture.
The high-level Microsoft Speech API is an OLE Component Object Model (COM) application programming interface (API) that allows applications to quickly and easily incorporate speech recognition and text-to-speech into their applications. This talk covers the overall architecture of the Microsoft Speech API, some examples of where you might want to use speech, and a walk-through of a sample application using the high-level speech API.
The low-level Microsoft Speech API is an OLE COM API that gives an application full control of speech recognition and text-to-speech. We cover reasons for using the low-level speech API, an overview of the API, and some sample code using it.
This talk discusses what Windows Sockets are, the details in using them, how you can use them, and how they affect your Internet application. Specifically, it covers how to write a simple Windows Sockets application, and gives pointers to more information about Windows Sockets and their use. This talk includes highlights on Windows Sockets 2.0 new features.
It's not just a good idea, it's the law...OLE Accessibility allows developers to expose the inner workings of their applications. In addition to making your product friendlier to people with disabilities, OLE Accessibility facilitates better testing tools and new classes of utilities. This session gives step-by-step instructions on and hard-core code examples of how to implement this emerging technology. In addition, we'll give an overview of how to avoid losing sales to the government and other large accounts because of inaccessible software, and how Microsoft is implementing this technology in Windows and Office.
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