IWMSPublishingPoint Object (C#)

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.

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 (C#) containing a collection of authentication plug-ins.
CacheProxyExpiration	Specifies and retrieves the expiration value for cached content.
CurrentCounters	Retrieves an IWMSPublishingPointCurrentCountersIWMSPublishingPointCurrentCounters Object (C#) 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 IWMSPluginsIWMSPlugins Object (C#) containing a collection of event authorization and notification plug-ins.
get_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 (C#) containing information about limits maintained by the publishing point.
MonikerName	Retrieves the moniker name of a publishing point.
Name	Specifies and retrieves the name of the 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 (C#) that contains information about peak counters maintained by the publishing point.
Players	Retrieves an IWMSPlayersIWMSPlayers Object (C#) containing information about connected players.
Properties	Retrieves an IWMSNamedValuesIWMSNamedValues Object (C#) 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 (C#) 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.

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

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

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];
    }
}
catch (COMException comExc) {
    // TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
}
catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

See Also

Reference

IWMSBroadcastPublishingPoint Object (C#)

IWMSOnDemandPublishingPoint Object (C#)

IWMSPublishingPoints Object (C#)

Concepts

Server Object Model (C#)