SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABSA structure (nspapi.h)

The SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABS structure contains information about a network service type. Use SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABS to add a network service type to a namespace.

Syntax

typedef struct _SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABSA {
  LPSTR                   lpTypeName;
  DWORD                   dwValueCount;
  SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_ABSA Values[1];
} SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABSA, *PSERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABSA, *LPSERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABSA;

Members

lpTypeName

Pointer to a zero-terminated string that is the name of the network service type. This name is the same in all namespaces, and is used by the GetTypeByName and GetNameByType functions.

dwValueCount

Number of SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_ABS structures in the Values member array that follows dwValueCount.

Values[1]

Array of SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_ABS structures.

Each of these structures contains information about a service type value that the operating system or network service may need when an instance of this network service type is registered with a namespace.

The information in these structures may be specific to a namespace. For example, if a network service uses the SAP namespace, but does not have a GUID that contains the SAP identifier (SAPID), it defines the SAPID in a SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_ABS structure.

Remarks

When you use the SetService function to add a network service type to a namespace, the SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABS structure is passed as the ServiceSpecificInfo BLOB member of a SERVICE_INFO structure. Although the ServiceSpecificInfo member generally should not contain pointers, an exception is made in the case of the SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABS and SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_ABS structures.

Note

The nspapi.h header defines SERVICE_TYPE_INFO_ABS as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Header	nspapi.h

See also

SERVICE_INFO

SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_ABS

SetService