IWMSPublishingPoint.Path (C#)

The Path property specifies and retrieves the path to the publishing point content.

IWMSPublishingPoint.Path = string;
string = IWMSPublishingPoint.Path;

Property Value

A string containing the path.

If this property fails, it throws an exception.

Number	Description
0x8007000E	There is insufficient memory to complete the function.
0xC00D002BL	The path for a publishing point cannot be changed while the publishing point is running.
0xC00D145AL	The publishing point was already removed.
0xC00D1452L	The method is not supported for cache proxy publishing points.

Remarks

The path must start with an appropriate prefix to indicate which data source plug-in to use. The following table provides examples of valid paths.

Path	Example
Media file	file:://C:\wmpub\wmroot\movie.wmv file://\\server\directory\movie.wmv
Playlist file	file:://C:\wmpub\wmroot\playlist.wsx file://\\server\directory\playlist.wsx
Stream from an encoder	http://encoder:port
Stream pushed to an encoder	push:*
Content from a publishing point on a local server	lpp://pubpoint/media.wmv
Stream from a publishing point on a local or remote server	rtsp://server/pubpoint https://server/pubpoint
Stream from a station or publishing point on a version 4.1 server	https://server/stationname https://server/pubpoint
Media file or playlist on a local or remote server	rtsp://server/pubpoint/movie.wmv
Playlist file from a Web server	https://server/playlist.asp https://server/playlist.wsx
Directory of files	file://C:\wmpub\wmroot\directory
Multicast announcement file	MCast://c:\wmpub\wmroot\file.nsc. Relative URLs cannot be used to specify this path.

Example

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

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

string                 strText;

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

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

    // Retrieve information about each publishing point.
    for (int i = 0; i < PubPoints.Count; i++)
    {
        PubPoint = PubPoints[i];

        // Retrieve the content path of the publishing point.
        strText = PubPoint.Path;

        // Set the content path of the publishing point.
        strText = "c:\\wmpub\\wmroot\\";
        PubPoint.Path = strText;
    }
}
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

Reference

IWMSPublishingPoint Object (C#)

IWMSPublishingPoint.Path (C#)