VIRTUALCHANNELOPEN callback function (cchannel.h)

Opens the client end of a virtual channel.

Remote Desktop Services provides a pointer to a VirtualChannelOpen function in the CHANNEL_ENTRY_POINTS structure passed to your VirtualChannelEntry entry point.

Syntax

VIRTUALCHANNELOPEN Virtualchannelopen;

UINT VCAPITYPE Virtualchannelopen(
  [in]  LPVOID pInitHandle,
  [out] LPDWORD pOpenHandle,
  [in]  PCHAR pChannelName,
  [in]  PCHANNEL_OPEN_EVENT_FN pChannelOpenEventProc
)
{...}

Parameters

[in] pInitHandle

Handle to the client connection. This is the handle returned in the ppInitHandle parameter of the VirtualChannelInit function.

[out] pOpenHandle

Pointer to a variable that receives a handle that identifies the open virtual channel in subsequent calls to the VirtualChannelWrite and VirtualChannelClose functions.

[in] pChannelName

Pointer to a null-terminated ANSI character string containing the name of the virtual channel to open. The name must have been registered when the client called the VirtualChannelInit function.

[in] pChannelOpenEventProc

Pointer to an application-defined VirtualChannelOpenEvent function that Remote Desktop Services calls to notify the client DLL of events for this virtual channel.

Return value

If the function succeeds, the return value is CHANNEL_RC_OK.

If an error occurs, the function returns one of the following values.

Remarks

The client DLL cannot call this function until the client has established a connection with an RD Session Host server. Your VirtualChannelInitEvent function receives a CHANNEL_EVENT_CONNECTED notification when an RD Session Host server connection is established.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows Vista
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2008
Target Platform Windows
Header cchannel.h

See also

VirtualChannelClose

VirtualChannelInit

VirtualChannelInitEvent

VirtualChannelOpenEvent

VirtualChannelWrite