Preview Handler Association Editor

Preview Handlers in Outlook 2007

SGriffin's [MSFT] WebLog — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:27:35 GMT

I figure it won't be long before folks are asking me how to do this. Stephen Toub put up a great article

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onovotny — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:53:49 GMT

Thanks, it looks great and works really well.

--Oren

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Rodrigo — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:30:57 GMT

Hi.

There is somehow to associate html files with some PreviewHandler? Outlook 2007 is lacking a html PreviewHandler, thats weird.

tnx.

PS.: I got a error after associate .htm with MSDN Internet Explorer Preview Handler using this editor.

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toub — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:32:17 GMT

Are you using RTM of Outlook 2007 on Vista RTM? It does have a built-in HTML preview handler.

Vista and Office: View Data Your Way With Our Managed Preview Handler Framework

MSDN Magazine — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:34:30 GMT

The new Windows Vista preview pane lets you preview files right within the shell, and Outlook 2007 gives

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Chris Pietschmann — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:35:30 GMT

Could you post the source code for this editor?

It seems to error everytime I try to run it. I am running Vista x64 RTM by the way.

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Brian Kudera — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:02:30 GMT

Thanks for sharing this handy utility!

However, when I run the application I do not have the Registered Handler of Microsoft Windows TXT Preview Handler. How do I add this as a handler?

Code for PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor

Stephen Toub — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:57:42 GMT

I've had several requests for the code for the PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor tool I put up a few weeks

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toub — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:59:45 GMT

Chris, I've updated the download with the source for the tool. If you figure out why it's not working for you on x64, I'd be very interested in the answer. I unfortunately don't have an x64 machine accessible to me at the moment to test it on.

Brian, what handlers do show up in the combobox? Are any available?

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briankudera — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:19:42 GMT

I have the following Registered Handles displaying in the utility:

Microsoft Office Excel previewer

Microsoft Office PowerPoint previewer

Microsoft Office Visio previewer

Microsoft Office Word previewer

FYI I am on Win XP Pro

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toub — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:24:10 GMT

Ah! Yeah, there are differences between Windows Vista and WinXP. I tried to make it clear in the article, but obviously I could have made it clearer ;) Vista ships with some preview handlers, as does Office 2007, and the sets they ship with are different. I believe the TXT preview handler is just in the Vista subset, which would explain why it's not available to you.

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briankudera — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:40:01 GMT

ahh ha toub- that probably explains it!

Sorry, didn't catch that as the description of this thread. I'll locate another thread to post my WinXP Pro issues on.

Thanks!!

Brian

Creando Previewers Personalizados para Outlook 2007

Sergio Tarrillo's Blog -> enhancements — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:32:19 GMT

Los que tienen Office 2007, o probaron las Betas de Office 2007, se pudieron dar cuenta de una excelente...

Creando Previewers Personalizados para Outlook 2007

SergioTarrillo's RichWeblog — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:32:40 GMT

Los que tienen Office 2007, o probaron las Betas de Office 2007, se pudieron dar cuenta de una excelente

Update to PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor for Vista x64

Stephen Toub — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:14:47 GMT

John Robbins emailed me tonight to let me know that he found a bug with my PreviewHandlerAssociatedEditor

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Helio — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:56:09 GMT

This is great - however it crashes when I try to add XML to the TXT handler.

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toub — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:31:07 GMT

Helio, what crashes?

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helio — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:14:16 GMT

Sorry I misstated really - I get an unhandled exception the gist of it is this:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the registry key 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\XML' is denied.

But the app doesn't crash. However, nor does it create the handler association. I tried running as admin...

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toub — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:06:50 GMT

You're selecting the wrong item in the list. You want ".xml", not "xml".

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Wouter Baake — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:27:04 GMT

Is there any reason why HTML preview is not supported with Outlook 2007 on Win XP Pro?

These kind of stupid things are driving me crazy, there's HTML rendering for messages, but not for attachment previewing, what the hell is that...

Photoshop Preview Handler

Quartz — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:16:21 GMT

I have created a Photoshop preview handler based on your brilliant framework and article on MSDN jan 2007

Photoshop files(PSD) Preview Handler for Windows Vista here

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PhotoshopPreviewHandler.asp

Do let me know what you think about that

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toub — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:57:23 GMT

Quartz, that's awesome! I'm glad to see that folks like you are picking this up and running with it to create new preview handlers. I hope the framework was helpful, and please do let me know of any others you create.

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Somnath Mondal — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:28:09 GMT

Is it possible to use the file previewer component which already installed with Outlook 2007 using C# Windows Form. Basically I want to preview office document inside my application window. It will help me a lot if you send some article/link on the same

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toub — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:59:11 GMT

It should be possible, but I've never tried. Good luck.

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orimarjr69@gmail.com — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:25:20 GMT

i have been looking for a dwg. handler for auto cad for almost a week with no success i am not a programmer but have a feeling by the time i find it i would have already written on myself lol. Every architect and engineer could use this but so far does not exist can any body please point me in at least a general direction i which i should be surfing!

Hosting Vista File Previews in Managed Code

Coding Powers — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:13:03 GMT

As part of my work on the Coding4Fun Developer Kit 2008, I created a WinForm control encapsulating the...

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Geoff — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:34:37 GMT

I agree with Wouter Baake why cant i preview a html attachment in outlook 2007 - this seems really crazy!!!

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Dane — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:45:39 GMT

Thanks.

.Divx now previews in Vista.

Regards

Dane

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Wimmme — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:03:15 GMT

For PreviewHandlers on XP, look at http://www.azarfamily.org/previewhandlersforwindowsxp

GIl Azar did an amazing job there !

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Colin Walker — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:21:56 GMT

Resolved some issues I was having really easily. Thanks :)

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Robert McLaws — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:09:31 GMT

Does this code work on Vista x64?

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toub — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:36:00 GMT

I've never tested it on x64, but I know that others have. See http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2007/02/16/update-to-previewhandlerassociationeditor-for-vista-x64.aspx.

Vista & Office 2007 Preview Handlers

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:25:11 GMT

One of the cooler Vista features that I've started using more often is the File Preview in Windows Explorer.

Vista & Office 2007 Preview Handlers

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:26:07 GMT

One of the cooler Vista features that I've started using more often is the File Preview in Windows Explorer.

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msapc — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:34:17 GMT

Thank you for a good program! Already helped me fix some problems after installing one of those handler packs for WinXP.

One wish - If You could please make some substring search in the extension list, because otherwise looking for the desired filetype is pretty lengthy process.

Wthat I want is "search" field, where I could enter "pd" (case insensitive) and see only ".*PD.*" stuff, including those long names like "Adobe PDF File" along with simple ".pdf" lines.

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Ramesh — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:56:53 GMT

Another tool here...released in the same month as Preview Handler Association Editor.

[PreviewConfig]

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/114/1/PreviewConfig-Utility-to-register-file-types-for-Explorer-Preview-Pane-in-Windows-Vista.html

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kenzy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:02:34 GMT

How about the .rar type files ? I can't find it after installed winrar. No prog handler found

Preview Handler blocking Excel

John Smith — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:54:15 GMT

If I preview an Excel file, an instance of Excel.exe is opened that stays open. This prevents me from double clicking an Excel file because the excel.exe that is already running causes Excel to report that Personal.xlsb is in use, so my macros are not available.

The only way I can use Excel freely is to shut down Explorer after previewing, to kill that first instance of excel.exe, then open Excel, then do File, Open and navigate to the file. Hardly practical!

Could you suggest a solution?

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Amirz — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:20:47 GMT

the tool detects only registered preview handler that already exists. Can it add new ones? eg for dwg. thanks

Preview Handlers in Outlook 2007

SGriffin's [MSFT] WebLog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:37:21 GMT

I figure it won't be long before folks are asking me how to do this. Stephen Toub put up a great article

Preview Handlers for Vista and Outlook 2007

PeteGoo's Blog — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:47:14 GMT

Preview Handlers for Vista and Outlook 2007

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Preview Handler for image files?

newbie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:54:40 GMT

I'm testing out this and the excellent handler framework, and I've come across an issue/question. I can't seem to get jpg/gif/bmp files to preview properly in the code i'm writing, though other file types (office, pdf, etc.) work fine as in the example code. Jpg/Gif/Bmp files preview just fine in the Vista explorer preview pane, so I don't think there's any issue in my registry, etc., but I can't find out what previewer is used for them (none shows in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PreviewHandlers).

Any thoughts or guidance on this would be much appreciated!

Preview Handler Association Editor

Florida SEO — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:28:47 GMT

Stephen ... I want to thank you for your excellent contribution to everyone with the fantastic tool ...

I do a lot of web development work and it is fantastic to be able to preview code automatically without having to open up my preferred text editor to view the files (EditPad Pro):) ...

Thank you very much ...

Edward Beckett

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Rudy — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:39:36 GMT

I can't download this tool! (404) Please fix it thanx

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toub — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:36:22 GMT

It's available at http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/attachment/1286588.ashx.

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Willi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:06:06 GMT

Based on your article "View Data Your Way With Our Managed Preview Handler", here a preview handler for .rar file. It can be download at this url http://www.csharpfr.com/codes/PREVIEW-HANDLER-OFFICE-OUTLOOK-2007-10-SUR-FICHIERS_50647.aspx

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Hadster — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:20:57 GMT

Has anyone figured out how to preview non-".txt" text formats (such as ".bat") with the text handler on XP? The TXT handler does not show up in the list on XP.

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Oli — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:24:08 GMT

Thank you Steve, it works perfectly for me!