WindowsPreviewHandlerMBS class

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WindowsPreviewHandlerMBS class

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
class Windows MBS Win Plugin 12.3 ❌ No ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No Desktop only
The class for showing previews on windows.

This is linke a control which you can put into a window to show a preview for a file.

Uses IPreviewHandler class from Microsoft, so also see here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-ipreviewhandler
https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/win32/shell/preview-handlers

The preview handlers we find are those listed in the registry here:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PreviewHandlers

See WinPreviewControlMBS control to use this class as a control.

This class has no sub classes.

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