NGWS MMC Snap-in Sample Read-Me

This document contains the release information for the NGWS MMC Snap-in sample. You will find the following sections below:

• About the Sample
• Getting Started

About This Sample

What the sample is about

This sample demonstrates the use of Interop and WFC to create a MMC Snap-in. The sample implements various classic COM interfaces in order to communicate with MMC. It uses both C# and a small C++ DLL to handle some functions that could not be employed in C#.

It does not attempt to explain the inner workings of MMC. Please refer to MSDN for a complete MMC discussion.

Getting Started

Location of Sample

This sample list located in the MMCSnapin directory of the NGWS SDK sample directories.

For Example:

C:\Program Files\NGWSSDK\Samples\MMC

Building the Sample

In order to properly build and run this sample, the following steps need to be performed prior to building and running the sample…

· In order for the sample to display help files and HTML files correctly, two variables in the file mmcSpecificConstsAndInterfaces needs to be changed to reflect the path they are placed in (if different from C:\Program Files\NGWSSDK\Samples\MMC)

For Example:

public class ThisSnapin

{

public const String sDllName = “SampleMMC”;

public const String sBaseDir = “**DIRECTORY CONTAINING HTML FILES**”;

public const String sHelpFile = “**DIRECTORY CONTAINING HELP FILE**\\snapsamp.chm”;

}

· Type NMAKE from the command line to build the binary

For Example:

C:\Program Files\NGWSSDK\Samples\MMC\:>NMAKE

· Type NMAKE reg from the command line to register the COM objects and snap-in

For Example:

C:\Program Files\NGWSSDK\Samples\MMC\:>NMAKE reg

· Place SampleMMCHelper.dll in a directory included in the PATH environment variable

For example:

path=%path%;C:\Program Files\NGWSSDK\Samples\MMC

· Both SampleMMCHelper.dll and SampleMMC.res are pre-built. The source and resource files are provided, but they will require an installation of Visual C++ in order to compile them

Running the Sample

In order to run this sample, follow the instructions listed below.

• Type MMC from the command line.

For Example:

C:\Program Files\NGWSSDK\Samples\MMC\:>mmc

· Select Add/Remove Snap-in from the Console Menu

· Click Add

· Select the “#1 Team Sites” snap-in

· Click Add

· Click Close

· Click Ok