[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
This section of the Microsoft NetShow SDK describes functionality exposed to developers by the NetShow components. These components are used to configure, monitor, supervise, and augment the NetShow Server. NetShow Server is a set of services that unicasts or multicasts multimedia streams and files to clients. NetShow supports the following COM-compliant API sets and ActiveX controls for manipulating NetShow servers:
| Component | Description |
| Station Manager control | Used to manage and configure a NetShow multicast server. Functionality exposed by this control (Nschmgr.ocx) includes opening, starting, stopping, and closing stations and streams This control also provides support for tracking stream properties and client connections. |
| Unicast Manager control | Used to manage, configure, and monitor a NetShow unicast server. Functionality exposed by this control (Nsunimgr.ocx) includes setting server limits, monitoring client preferences, monitoring server activity, and filtering the types of events fired by the control. |
| Authentication API | Used to create plug-in COM objects that verify the identity of clients connecting to a NetShow server. |
| Event Notification and Authorization API | Used to create plug-in COM objects used for billing and controlling access to NetShow content. |
| NetShow Encoder control | Used to convert live or stored multimedia source into an ASF stream. |
| File Transfer Service control | Used to broadcast files between servers, to be received over networks. |