Preview Handler COM Server

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timheuer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:25:33 GMT

Resource Page Description
Sample code for creating Preview Handlers on Windows XP systems using a COM server built in the .NET Framework. Preview Handlers are a built in part of Vista, however the out-of-process server that is included in Vista is not a part of Windows XP and thus a preview host is necessary.

This library is a sample of implementing the necessary COM server implementation as well as preview handler interfaces to create a handler that will work in Outlook 2007 and Windows XP.

Credit goes to Stephen Toub, Ryan Gregg, and Lim Bio Long for providing inspiration, sample code and documentation to this sample.

This sample is based off of articles on CodeProject demonstrating implementing COM servers in .NET as well as code from Ryan Gregg for implementing the required interfaces for IPreviewHandler to make this work.

See The Code Trip for a brief video by roadie Tim Heuer describing the core piece of this and a link to an implementation using this library.

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timheuer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:34:05 GMT

Resource Page Description
Sample code for creating Preview Handlers on Windows XP systems using a COM server built in the .NET Framework. Preview Handlers are a built in part of Vista, however the out-of-process server that is included in Vista is not a part of Windows XP and thus a preview host is necessary.

This library is a sample of implementing the necessary COM server implementation as well as preview handler interfaces to create a handler that will work in Outlook 2007 and Windows XP.

Credit goes to Stephen Toub, Ryan Gregg, and Lim Bio Long for providing inspiration, sample code and documentation to this sample.

This sample is based off of articles on CodeProject demonstrating implementing COM servers in .NET as well as code from Ryan Gregg for implementing the required interfaces for IPreviewHandler to make this work.

See The Code Trip for a brief video by roadie Tim heuer describing the core piece of this and a link to an implementation using this library.

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0.0.0 (Mar 27, 2008)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:36:07 GMT

Initial release with a sample implementation emitting the previewed file text contents into a giant text box.

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timheuer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:09:06 GMT

Resource Page Description
Sample code for creating Preview Handlers on Windows XP systems using a COM server built in the .NET Framework. Preview Handlers are a built in part of Vista, however the out-of-process server that is included in Vista is not a part of Windows XP and thus a preview host is necessary.

This library is a sample of implementing the necessary COM server implementation as well as preview handler interfaces to create a handler that will work in Outlook 2007 and Windows XP.

Many thanks to Stephen Toub, Ryan Gregg and CodeProject for most of the code!

Credit goes to Stephen Toub, Ryan Gregg, and Lim Bio Long for providing inspiration, sample code and documentation to this sample.

This sample is based off of articles on CodeProject demonstrating implementing COM servers in .NET as well as code from Ryan Gregg for implementing the required interfaces for IPreviewHandler to make this work.

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timheuer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:02:44 GMT

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timheuer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:30:25 GMT