[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
Most developers of GQOS-enabled applications will find their requirements met within the GQOS API, and the requisite knowledge of components will fall largely under the Application-Driven GQOS Components section. Thus, reading through the Application-Driven GQOS Components overview material, combined with the API reference information in GQOS Reference, should provide nearly all of the information necessary to develop GQOS-aware applications.
There is other information available within the other sections found within this GQOS documentation that facilitates the development of granular Traffic Control, such as that found in the Network-Driven GQOS Components section, that can provide explanations of the underlying technologies and programmatic reference to interfaces available for such efforts. In such circumstances, a reading of the Application-Driven and Network-Driven sections is suggested.
For development of policy components, such as third party authentication services intended to provide network resource admission services, the Policy-Driven sections are likely best candidates.
For a complete understanding of GQOS and its components, as they are implemented and interact within the Windows NTŪ 5.0 (and Windows 98) framework, reading of all of the overview sections is recommended.