IWMSPublishingPoint.Type (Visual Basic .NET)

The Type property retrieves an enumeration value that indicates the publishing point type.

WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE = IWMSPublishingPoint.Type

Property Value

A member of a WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE enumeration type indicating the publishing point type. This must be one of the following values.

Value	Description
WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_ON_DEMAND	The publishing point is an on-demand publishing point.
WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_BROADCAST	The publishing point is a broadcast publishing point.
WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_CACHE_PROXY_ON_DEMAND	The publishing point is an on-demand publishing point that can be used for caching content.
WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_CACHE_PROXY_BROADCAST	The publishing point is a broadcast publishing point that can be used as a proxy.

If this property fails, it returns an error number.

Number	Description
0xC00D145AL	The publishing point was already removed.

Remarks

This property is read-only. You must specify the publishing point type when you use the IWMSPublishingPoints.Add method to create a publishing point.

Example

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

Private Sub GetPubPointType()

    ' Declare variables.
    Dim Server As WMSServer
    Dim PubPoints As IWMSPublishingPoints
    Dim PubPoint As IWMSPublishingPoint
    Dim pptType As WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE

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 type of publishing point.
        pptType = PubPoint.Type

        If pptType = WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE.WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_BROADCAST Then
            ' TODO: Handle broadcast publishing point.
        ElseIf pptType = WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE.WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_CACHE_PROXY_BROADCAST Then
            ' TODO: Handle cache proxy broadcast publishing point. 
        ElseIf pptType = WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE.WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_CACHE_PROXY_ON_DEMAND Then
            ' TODO: Handle cache proxy on-demand publishing point.  
        ElseIf pptType = WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE.WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_TYPE_ON_DEMAND Then
            ' TODO: Handle on-demand publishing point.
        End If

    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

Reference

IWMSPublishingPoint Object (Visual Basic .NET)

IWMSPublishingPoints.Add (Visual Basic .NET)

IWMSPublishingPoints.Add (Visual Basic .NET)