Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

Getting a handle to an IFilter

Jerry Camel — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:14:17 GMT

I have a bit of an IFilter mystery to solve. I'm writing a custom IFilter for a file format that might contain some embedded MIME stuff... How can I get a handle to the MIME IFilter so that I can pass the chunk requests through? It seems everything is setup to easily deal with OLE structured storage docs, but not MIME. If I pass the stream off with BindIFilterFromStream, I just get a message stating that the OLESTREAM format is incorrect. The data is in a stream, not a file...

Thanks.

re: Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

Gabriella — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:41:49 GMT

Anyone knows if exists an I filter for ISO files?

Thanks a lot,

re: Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

Sohaib — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:51:40 GMT

Hi Charan

Its a great new that u figured out this tricky thing - Although its a long time but still congrats :)

IFilter text retrieval

Charan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:35:30 GMT

I have one doubt with IFilter ...

is it possible to ask iFilter to give the textual contents in some defined order ?

meaning that, for eg , if you take ppt file .. the client should able to distinguish between the text retrieved from a header and from a page.

Are there any way to specify these things to iFilter so that i know which section of the document i am dealing with and handle those block of text accordingly ?

re: Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

Albert — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:59:06 GMT

Hi there,

Thanks for all the great tips!

For windows desktop search, do you know how the text in the preview pane is derived?

For me it looks like the contents of the first call to getText() is shown in the preview.

DWG (Autocad) Filter is now available.

Filter Central — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:17:05 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that after a lot of trails and tribulations, the DWG IFilter is finally ready.

Repeating Cidaemon.exe problems

Marco van Schagen — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:48:41 GMT

My apologies, my previous post was based on a bad piece of code. I have made many changes, and the errors disappeared. Good thing. Also the indexing result dissapeared. Not a good thing.

I was thinking, having one buffer between GetText calls may result the indexer to read the last text from buffer over and over again. I'll need to check this.

My Microsoft contact tells me I am having an issue with stack space. I am still working on this one.

re: POWER POINT iFilter

Deb Haldar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:59:55 GMT

Charan,

Ideally you'd send the file to the Microsoft Product Support contact for your company.

However, if you do not have a MS PSS contact, please send them to debh@microsoft.com and briancoy@microsoft.com

cheers,

Deb.

re: Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

Charan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:43:42 GMT

Deb ,

i will send the file on which i found the problem with other details .

may i have the mail ID of the person to whom i should send the details ?

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Charan

re: POWER POINT iFilter.

Deb Haldar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:57:31 GMT

Charan,

There is no official document detailing the limitations of offilt. We look into each issue based on its merit and resolve/fix it acoordingly.

Can you please send me the repro file with a crisp description of the problem?

Thanks,

Deb.