IWMSPlugins.Category (C#)

IWMSPlugins.Category (C#)

The Category property retrieves the category name for the IWMSPlugins collection.

Syntax

  string = IWMSPlugins.Category;

Property Value

A string containing the category name.

If this property fails, it throws an exception.

Remarks

This property is read-only. The category identifies the general functionality of the plug-in. The following category names can be returned:

• Authentication
• Broadcast Data Sink
• Cache
• Control Protocol
• Data Source
• Event Notification and Authorization
• Media Parser
• Playlist Parser
• Stream Filter
• Unicast Data Sink

Example Code

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

// Declare variables.
WMSServer          Server;
IWMSPlugins        Plugins;

string             strText;

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

    // Retrieve the IWMSPlugins object.
    Plugins = Server.EventHandlers;

    // Retrieve the category name for this
    // collection of plug-ins.
    strText = Plugins.Category;
}
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

• IWMSPlugins Object (C#)