IWMSServer.DataSources (Visual Basic .NET)

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IWMSServer.DataSources (Visual Basic .NET)

The DataSources property retrieves an IWMSPlugins object that contains a collection of data source plug-ins.

Syntax

  IWMSPlugins = IWMSServer.DataSources

Property Value

An IWMSPlugins object that contains the collection data source plug-ins..

Remarks

This property is read-only. You can use data source plug-ins to receive content from an encoder, a file system, a network.

The following system plug-ins can be accessed by using the DataSources property.

Plug-in Description
WMS File Data Source Enables the Windows Media server to access playlist and media files that are stored on a FAT, FAT32, NTFS, or CIFS file system.
WMS HTTP Download Data Source Enables a Windows Media server to access playlist files from a Web server.
WMS Network Data Source Enables a Windows Media server to pull a distribution stream from an upstream server or encoder.
WMS Push Data Source Enables push distribution of a stream from an encoder to a Windows Media server.

To create custom data source plug-ins, see Creating Data Source Plug-ins.

Example Code

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

Private Sub GetDataSources()

    ' Declare variables.
    Dim Server As WMSServer
    Dim Plugins As IWMSPlugins

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

    ' Retrieve a pointer to an IWMSPlugins interface
    ' containing data source plug-ins.
    Plugins = Server.DataSources

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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