Client Interfaces

A client can be any software that receives content from a Windows Media server. The most common examples cited throughout this documentation are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and other Windows Media servers. The server object model contains the following interfaces that enable you to retrieve information about connected clients. Links to reference pages for these interfaces, listed by programming language, are provided in the See Also lists that follow the table.

Interface	Description
IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnection	Contains methods to manage distribution connections. You can use a Windows Media server as a distribution server.
IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnections	Contains a collection of IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnection interfaces.
IWMSPlayer	Contains methods to retrieve the properties of a connected player.
IWMSPlayers	Contains a collection of IWMSPlayer interfaces.

See Also (General)

• Monitoring Client Connections

• Programming the Server Object Model

• The Server Object Model

See Also (Visual Basic .NET)

• IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnectionIWMSOutgoingDistributionConnection Object (Visual Basic .NET)

• IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnectionsIWMSOutgoingDistributionConnections Object (Visual Basic .NET)

• IWMSPlayerIWMSPlayer Object (Visual Basic .NET)

• IWMSPlayersIWMSPlayers Object (Visual Basic .NET)

See Also (C#)

• IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnectionIWMSOutgoingDistributionConnection Object (C#)

• IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnectionsIWMSOutgoingDistributionConnections Object (C#)

• IWMSPlayerIWMSPlayer Object (C#)

• IWMSPlayersIWMSPlayers Object (C#)

See Also (C++)

• IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnectionIWMSOutgoingDistributionConnection Interface

• IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnectionsIWMSOutgoingDistributionConnections Interface

• IWMSPlayerIWMSPlayer Interface

• IWMSPlayersIWMSPlayers Interface