Tue, January 30, 2007, 05:27 PM under
Windows |
Vista
Remember the awesome
Managed Preview Handler Framework for Vista and Outlook? Visit the author’s blog to download a
Preview Handler Association editor.
I also found a preview handler, written with the framework, which is for code file extensions such as .cs, .vb, .js and .sql (
link to download here).
Given that the visual effect is best described with a video, I’ve recorded a
screencast on the topic.
After recording the video I came up with a slightly more useful preview handler than the one I showed there. How many times have you wanted to quickly extract the FullName or specifically the PublicKeyToken from a strong-named assembly? So I thought I’d write a managed preview handler that works for managed DLLs and shows some quick info when you select the file in explorer as the following screenshot shows:
Like the demo preview handler shown in the screencast, only one method has real code and I am sure you can imagine what it looks like... and if not,
get it here (demoware).
...and remember that preview handlers also work in Outlook 2007... I guess that is what they mean when they say "better together" ;-)