Managed Preview Handler Framework for Vista and Outlook

Posted By: Daniel Moth | Jan 11th, 2007 @ 11:27 AM

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Smiley

Introduction: Preview handlers is a new technology in Windows Vista and in Outlook 2007. You can read about the managed preview handler framework on my blog here.

Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here.

Video Contents:
00'00'' – 00'30'' Title slide
00'30'' – 01'30'' Roundup of explorer enhancements in Vista
01'30'' – 04'00'' Preview Pane in Vista’s explorer
04'00'' – 05'20'' Preview Pane in Outlook 2007
05'20'' – 12'20'' MSDN Preview Handlers by Stephen Toub
12'20'' – 18'00'' Inside the Managed Preview Handler framework (12:57-13:25 corrupt)
18'00'' – 27'00'' Writing your own hello world Managed Preview Handler
27'00'' – 29’30’’ Registering a new extension with an existing preview handler
20'30'' – 30'22'' Summary slide and links

Tags: en-GB, MS Office, UK, UKDevTeam, Windows Vista

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Daniel Moth
Developer

Looks good, blogged it, thanks! Smiley

Quartz
Senior UI/UX Engineer

Hey Daniel

Based on your awesome screencast and article by Stephen toub i have created a Preview Handler for photoshop

Check it here

http://www.codeproject.com/vista/PhotoshopPreviewHandler.asp

Let me know what you think

updated link

Daniel Moth
Developer

Click on the link above in the "Introduction" section. Then on the blog entry, click on the final link to the class diagram. There you can see the COM interfaces involved.

Alternativelly, just use the source code since you downloaded it for your article, right? Wink

Quartz
Senior UI/UX Engineer

Thanks Daniel
Can you tell me which low level Vista API are used/involved in Preview Handlers or Preview Handler framework .

Rajesh

Quartz
Senior UI/UX Engineer

I wanted to know the low level API's which were vista specific, well
I got it , New Shell Interfaces for Windows Vista

Added that information in the article also

BTW , Getting great feedback about the preview handler, wasn't possible without your screen cast and your blog, Thanks again

Daniel Moth
Developer

Oh now I see... Your question was generic rather than specific to this post... for more on Vista-only APIs, see my blog post here:

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/11/vista-only-features-for-managed.html

Quartz
Senior UI/UX Engineer

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/11/vista-only-features-for-managed.html

That was awesome

Specifically the powerpoint you have provided is very informative , "to the point" and very impressive too

Thanks

rstat1

Is it possible to host the preview handlers in your own .NET app?

Daniel Moth
Developer

Hi rstat1

I haven't tried it but in theory you could simulate what the shell does in your app. Your starting point are the COM Interfaces that you must implement for the preview handler (as per the msdn mag article).

Good luck!

Cheers
Daniel