DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Hou — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:00:54 GMT

Is this also available for XP OS?

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Sreedhar — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:30:29 GMT

Hi Steve,

I was wondering, if you have come across a solution/utility that would convert audio from WMV files (recorded from live meeting sessions) into a transcript file?

Any insight would be appreciated.

-Sreedhar

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

rpowers — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:30:52 GMT

It is possible to "host" previews in a managed application.

I just finished some work for the Visual Studio Express team with help from Stephen to build a control and sample of leveraging his managed preview handler framework and displaying the preview results within a .net winform.

The work was part of a bigger project called the coding4fun Developer Kit 2008. You can get it <a href=http://www.codeplex.com/c4fdevkit>here</a>. Also I wrote a blog describing the preview handler host <a href=http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/ryan_powers/archive/2007/07/26/3245.aspx>here</a>.

Thanks to Stephen for his help and for building the core framework.

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Dan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:36:10 GMT

Hello,

Is it possible to use Preview Handler within a .Net application rather than accessing explorer to do the preview (aka the new quick preview in Leopard)?

I believe it would be better if it just simply launched a new window showing the preview of the selected file because with the preview pane enabled, it takes up too much desktop estate.

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Indra — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:21:05 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to display the preview in our own application instead of using the explorer??

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Stephen Toub - MSFT — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:09:40 GMT

J, please see my article on preview handlers at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/PreviewHandlers/, specifically the section entitled "Hosting a Preview Handler". That should answer your question.

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

J.Marsch — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:22:11 GMT

Hello:

I've read elsewhere: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/18/1317290.aspx

that we should not write shell extensions in managed code. (because it injects a .net runtime version dependency into the shell, and therefore into any application that uses the shell, even when displaying file open/save dialogs).

Does this advice not apply to Vista?

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Stephen Toub - MSFT — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:02:21 GMT

Mark, glad you like it! :) Regarding thumbnail providers, while it is possible to write them in .NET, it's not recommended. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=125283&SiteID=1 for more information.

re: DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

Mark — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:58:00 GMT

Wow, that is amazingly simple. This is a good thing. I think we will see some very creative uses of this as Vista matures.

Is it just as simple to add thumbnail handlers?