Preview pane

[Koeni]

Is there a way to use the previewers in a windows forms application ?

In my application we copied the e-mail messages to the file system to an
..msg file.

In windows vista you can see the content of the message in the explorer.

Now we would like to do the same in our application, is that possible ?

Thx

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

According to the blog post at http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AVCardPreviewHandlerUsingTheCoding4FunDevKit.aspx, "If you or your company makes an [Vista] explorer replacement, you can also host a Preview Control and add Preview functionality to your own File Explorer application." The Coding4Fun kit at http://www.codeplex.com/C4FDevKit includes a preview handler host sample. Once you download and install the kit, look under Coding4Fun\C4FDevKit2008v1\Preview Handlers\Samples\VB\PreviewHandlerHostSample

BTW, if anyone is looking for information on building preview handlers for Vista, you'll find good articles at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/PreviewHandlers/default.aspx and http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AVCardPreviewHandlerUsingTheCoding4FunDevKit.aspx.