IWMSServer.DataSources (C#)

The DataSources property retrieves an IWMSPluginsIWMSPlugins Object (C#) that contains a collection of data source plug-ins.

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

using Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// Declare variables.
WMSServer   Server;
IWMSPlugins Plugins;

try {
    // Create a new WMSServer object.
    Server = new WMSServerClass();

    // Retrieve a pointer to an IWMSPlugins interface
    // containing data source plug-ins.
    Plugins = Server.DataSources;
}
catch (COMException comExc) {
    // TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
}
catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

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

Reference

IWMSPlugins Object (C#)

IWMSServer Object (C#)