I tried to implement the MetadataHandler example of the Microsoft WinFS SDK
Beta 1 Documentation. Everything worked fine and i got no errors, but when i
drag a *.topic file to the DefaultStore nothing happens. The file is not
promoted to an Element of the Topic Type. I have created and registered all
*.dlls like described in the documentation. Is it possible, that there is a
mistake in the documentation, or what can be the problem?

Hi Micha,
Too bad you are facing problems with this. From the descriptions, it
is not clear what is going wrong here. Is it possible for you to share
out/post your code used for metadata handling and your schema types and the
steps you used for registering the metadata handlers?

As a side note, We are changing/simplifying the metadata extraction
significantly in Beta 2 and aligning it more closely with the windows desktop
search mechanism to utilize windows standard interfaces for extracting
metadata from filestreams and will also provide some declarative mapping
facilities for extracting metadata from schematized WinFS types. Hopefully
that will reduce some of the metadta extraction complexities.

thanks
-- srini acharya(MSFT)

"Micha" wrote:

> I tried to implement the MetadataHandler example of the Microsoft WinFS SDK
> Beta 1 Documentation. Everything worked fine and i got no errors, but when i
> drag a *.topic file to the DefaultStore nothing happens. The file is not
> promoted to an Element of the Topic Type. I have created and registered all
> *.dlls like described in the documentation. Is it possible, that there is a
> mistake in the documentation, or what can be the problem?

Hallo,

i have resolved the problem. You have to restart the WinFS Service and
depending Services after registering the MetadataHandler. This step was not
mentioned in den documentation. Now everything workes fine.