IWMSPublishingPoints.Add (C#)

IWMSPublishingPoints.Add (C#)

The Add method creates a new IWMSPublishingPoint object and adds it to the IWMSPublishingPoints collection.

Syntax

  IWMSPublishingPoint = IWMSPublishingPoints.Add(
  string  Name,
  WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_CATEGORY  Category,
  string  Path
);

Parameters

Name

[in] string containing the name of a publishing point to be added. The maximum length is 250 characters.

Category

[in] Member of a WMS_PUBLISHING_POINT_CATEGORY enumeration specifying the type of the publishing point. This must be one of the following values. There is no default value.

Path

[in] string containing the path to the content for the publishing point.

Return Values

This method returns an IWMSPublishingPoint object.

If this method fails, it throws an exception.

Remarks

The name of the publishing point must be unique. You can indicate the home publishing point by specifying only the forward slash character (/). There can be only one home publishing point, and it can be either a broadcast or on-demand publishing point. A home publishing point is not mandatory, but it enables clients to connect using the shorter URL formats such as protocol://server_name and protocol://server_name/file_name.

Any other publishing point names must not contain a leading or trailing /, but a / character is permitted in the middle of a name. The following characters are not permitted:

< > \ ? % & '  # { } | ^ [ ] `

White spaces are permitted in the name, but the server will strip leading and trailing white spaces.

The path must start with an appropriate prefix to indicate the data source plug-in to use. The following table illustrates valid paths.

When the server is installed, it creates a cache publishing point and a proxy publishing point. You cannot create or delete these.

Example Code

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

// Declare variables.
WMSServer              Server;
IWMSPublishingPoints   PubPoints;
IWMSPublishingPoint    PubPoint;

string                 strName;
string                 strPath;

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

    // Retrieve the IWMSPublishingPoints object.
    PubPoints = Server.PublishingPoints;

    // Add a new publishing point to the server.
    strName = "New Pub Point";
    strPath = "c:\\wmpub\\wmroot\\";
    PubPoint = PubPoints.Add(strName,
,
             strPath);
}
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

• IWMSPublishingPoints Object (C#)
• IWMSPublishingPoints.Remove (C#)