About the Channel Manager Control

The Microsoft NetShow Channel Manager control is an ActiveX™ control that allows an administrator to control the flow of content by using channels and streams of the NetShow Channel Manager Service. This SDK describes the functionality exposed by the control for creating custom administration applications and integrating NetShow into other software products.

The Channel Manager control exposes attributes for performing the following tasks:

Creating, deleting, and managing channels.
Creating, deleting, and managing streams.
Creating, deleting, and managing clients.
Creating, deleting, and managing host addresses.
Creating, deleting, and managing Channel Manager objects.

The NetShow Channel Manager control can be used directly in HTML pages (with or without Visual Basic Scripting) and in Visual Basic and Visual C++ applications. It exposes channel services administration functionality through a set of OLE automation interfaces. Those same properties and events are available in any programming environment that supports ActiveX controls. For more information on OLE automation and ActiveX controls, see any COM/OLE or ActiveX documentation. A list of additional information resources is in the More Information and Examples section of the NetShow Player Software Developer's Kit.

For more information about NetShow, visit the NetShow home page at http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/.

Support for current versions of NetShow Channel Manager is limited to computers running Windows NT® Workstation or Windows NT Server version 4.0 operating systems, however the Channel Manager Control is also supported on computers running Windows® 95.