Publishing with Windows Sockets Registration and Resolution

Microsoft® Windows® Sockets services can use the Registration and Resolution (RnR) APIs to publish services and look up services published with RnR. RnR publication occurs in two steps. The first step installs a service class that associates a GUID with a name for the service. The service class can hold service-specific configuration data. Services can then publish themselves as instances of the service class. When published, clients can query the directory service for instances of a given class using the RnR APIs and select an instance to bind to. When a class is no longer required, it can be removed.