IWMSPublishingPoint.Path (Visual Basic .NET)

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IWMSPublishingPoint.Path (Visual Basic .NET)

The Path property specifies and retrieves the path to the publishing point content.

Syntax

  IWMSPublishingPoint
  .Path = String
String = IWMSPublishingPoint.Path

Property Value

A String containing the path.

If this property fails, it returns an error number.

Number Description
0x8007000E There is insufficient memory to complete the function.
0xC00D002BL The path for a publishing point cannot be changed while the publishing point is running.
0xC00D145AL The publishing point was already removed.
0xC00D1452L The method is not supported for cache proxy publishing points.

Remarks

The path must start with an appropriate prefix to indicate which data source plug-in to use. The following table provides examples of valid paths.

Path Example
Media file file:://C:\wmpub\wmroot\movie.wmv

file://\\server\directory\movie.wmv
Playlist file file:://C:\wmpub\wmroot\playlist.wsx

file://\\server\directory\playlist.wsx
Stream from an encoder https://encoder:port
Stream pushed to an encoder push:*
Content from a publishing point on a local server lpp://pubpoint/media.wmv
Stream from a publishing point on a local or remote server rtsp://server/pubpoint

https://server/pubpoint
Stream from a station or publishing point on a version 4.1 server https://server/stationname

https://server/pubpoint
Media file or playlist on a local or remote server rtsp://server/pubpoint/movie.wmv
Playlist file from a Web server https://server/playlist.asp

https://server/playlist.wsx
Directory of files file://C:\wmpub\wmroot\directory
Multicast announcement file. MCast://c:\wmpub\wmroot\file.nsc. Relative URLs cannot be used to specify this path.

Example Code

Imports Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Private Sub GetSetPath()

    ' Declare variables.
    Dim Server As WMSServer
    Dim PubPoints As IWMSPublishingPoints
    Dim PubPoint As IWMSPublishingPoint
    Dim strText As String

Try
    ' Create the WMSServer object.
    Server = New WMSServer()

    ' Retrieve the IWMSPublishingPoints object.
    PubPoints = Server.PublishingPoints

    ' Retrieve information about each publishing point.
    For Each PubPoint In PubPoints

        ' Retrieve the content path of the publishing point.
        strText = PubPoint.Path

        ' Set the content path of the publishing point.
        strText = "c:\wmpub\wmroot\"
        PubPoint.Path = strText

    Next

Catch excCom As COMException
    ' TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
Catch exc As Exception
    ' TODO: Handle errors.
Finally
    ' TODO: Clean-up code goes here.
End Try

End Sub

Requirements

Reference: Add a reference to Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.

Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop.

Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.dll.

Library: WMSServerTypeLib.dll.

Platform: Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family.

See Also

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