Introducing TopoEdit
When Media Foundation was introduced in Windows Vista, it did not have any graphical tool analogous to DirectShow's GraphEdit. Now there is such a tool, named "TopoEdit." (Topologies are the Media Foundation equivalent of filter graphs.) You can see a pre-release version of TopoEdit in RC0 of Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008.
To quote from the SDK help:
TopoEdit is a visual tool for building and testing topologies. With TopoEdit, you can perform the following tasks:
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Build a topology by adding various topology nodes like source, transform, and output nodes.
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Connect and resolve the topology structure.
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Test the functionality of the topology through playback.
TopoEdit will be provided both as an executable and as source code (as an SDK sample). Here is a screenshot of the TopoEdit main window:
For more information: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb970416(VS.85).aspx.
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