Subscriber Characteristics (Windows CE 5.0)
A subscriber is any desktop-side binary that registers itself with the subscriber service to read publisher data. A subscriber can register itself to be notified of publisher events such as state changes. A subscriber can also send control messages to a publisher. A subscriber implements the ISubscriber interface.
The subscriber service is an out-of-process COM server on the desktop computer that provides remote device connection management and registration services. Only one instance of a subscriber service can exist on a desktop computer. When a subscriber requests data from a publisher, the subscriber service connects to the device. If the publisher is not started, then the subscriber service starts it. One subscriber service manages many remote connections.
For an example of a custom subscriber, see the Hello Subscriber sample in Publish/Subscribe Samples.
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