Loading and Previewing a Project

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This topic describes how to load and preview a project file with DirectShow Editing Services (DES). It presents a sample application that loads an XML project file into an empty timeline and renders the timeline for preview. You can modify the sample application to work with any example XML project file that ships with this SDK.

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Using DirectShow Editing Services