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IWMSPublishingPoint Object (Visual Basic .NET)

The IWMSPublishingPoint object supports the basic properties that describe both on-demand and broadcast publishing points. Additional properties and methods supported by on-demand and broadcast publishing points are available through the IWMSOnDemandPublishingPoint and IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint interfaces. These interfaces can be accessed by calling QueryInterface on the IWMSPublishingPoint interface.

The IWMSPublishingPoint object exposes the following properties and methods.

Property

Description

AllowClientsToConnect

Specifies and retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the publishing point can receive client connections.

AllowPlayerSideDiskCaching

Specifies and retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the publishing point allows clients to cache content locally.

Authenticators

Retrieves an IWMSPluginsIWMSPlugins Object (Visual Basic .NET) containing a collection of authentication plug-ins.

CacheProxyExpiration

Specifies and retrieves the expiration value for cached content.

CurrentCounters

Retrieves an IWMSPublishingPointCurrentCountersIWMSPublishingPointCurrentCounters Object (Visual Basic .NET) that contains counters maintained by the publishing point.

DistributionUserName

Retrieves the user name provided by the client in response to an authentication challenge sent during server-to-server distribution.

EnableFEC

Specifies and retrieves a value indicating whether Forward Error Correction is enabled.

EnableWrapperPath

Specifies and retrieves a Boolean value indicating whether a wrapper playlist is enabled for the publishing point.

EventHandlers

Retrieves an IWMSPlugins object containing a collection of event authorization and notification plug-ins.

FileDescriptions

Retrieves an IWMSFileDescriptions collection containing information about files, directories, and playlists in a specified publishing point path.

IsDistributionPasswordSet

Retrieves a Boolean value indicating whether the password used to authenticate server-to-server distribution is set.

ID

Retrieves a unique CLSID for the publishing point.

Limits

Retrieves an IWMSPublishingPointLimitsIWMSPublishingPointLimits Object (Visual Basic .NET) containing information about limits maintained by the publishing point.

Name

Specifies and retrieves the name of the publishing point.

MonikerName

Retrieves the moniker name of a publishing point.

OutgoingDistributionConnections

Retrieves an IWMSOutgoingDistributionConnections collection containing information about distribution connections.

Path

Specifies and retrieves the path to the publishing point content.

PeakCounters

Retrieves an IWMSPublishingPointPeakCountersIWMSPublishingPointPeakCounters Object (Visual Basic .NET) that contains information about peak counters maintained by the publishing point.

Players

Retrieves an IWMSPlayersIWMSPlayers Object (Visual Basic .NET) containing information about connected players.

Properties

Retrieves an IWMSNamedValuesIWMSNamedValues Object (Visual Basic .NET) containing a collection of name/value pairs for the publishing point.

Status

Retrieves the publishing point status.

StreamFilters

Reserved for future use.

TotalCounters

Retrieves an IWMSPublishingPointTotalCountersIWMSPublishingPointTotalCounters Object (Visual Basic .NET) that contains information about the total counters maintained by the publishing point.

Type

Retrieves an enumeration value that indicates the publishing point type.

WrapperPath

Specifies and retrieves the path to a wrapper playlist file.

Method

Description

SetDistributionUserNamePassword

Specifies the password and user name to use in response to an authentication challenge sent during server-to-server distribution.

Example

The following example illustrates how to retrieve an IWMSPublishingPoint object.

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

Private Sub RetrieveObj()

    ' Declare variables.
    Dim Server As WMSServer
    Dim PubPoints As IWMSPublishingPoints
    Dim PubPoint As IWMSPublishingPoint
    Dim i As Integer

Try
    ' Create the WMSServer object.
    Server = New WMSServer()

    ' Retrieve the IWMSPublishingPoints object.
    PubPoints = Server.PublishingPoints

    ' Retrieve information about each publishing point.
    For i = 0 To PubPoints.Count - 1
        PubPoint = PubPoints.Item(i)
    Next i

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

See Also

Reference

IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint Object (Visual Basic .NET)

IWMSOnDemandPublishingPoint Object (Visual Basic .NET)

IWMSPublishingPoints Object (Visual Basic .NET)

Concepts

Server Object Model (Visual Basic .NET)