IOS virtual channel tutorial

Question

I am writing an application for iPad that will need to communicate to a server through a TS connection I have(the application) to able to pass RDP Settings and data to server. Virtual Channels seems to be exactly what I need but Microsoft's documentation leaves very much to be desired.

Does anyone know of good tutorials or just some examples I could use to help me. Preferred language is Objective-C.

Thanks in advance.

So are you writing an RDP Client, or integrating with an existing one? — John Sibly, May 24 '13 at 14:01
I'm no written an RDP Client, I integrated an existing one which is call iFreeRDP — Pis, May 24 '13 at 14:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '13 at 14:37

For this to work iFreeRDP must have some kind of plug-in architecture allowing you to run custom code and open a virtual channel (this seems unlikely given Apple's strict policies on sandboxing, but I may be wrong).

If this is possible, you'd want to write a plug in as in the following article (assuming iFreeRDP uses the same interfaces for plug ins as the traditional Terminal Service Client on Windows): How to Write a Terminal Services Add-in in Pure C#

Although the article uses C#, the key functions from the Terminal Services API are used which are where the complexity lies.

IOS virtual channel tutorial

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