WPD on XP, Vista, and 7 (need to transfer photo and video files)
- by Bradley Dean
I need to transfer files (still photos and videos) from any portable device that a user may connect (still camera, video camera, mobile phone, etc.) I don't need to worry about plain storage devices as these have drive letters. And I only care about existing files, I don't care about live video, preview video, taking new pictures, etc.
I originally tried WIA, which works great except it can not transfer video files.
So then I tried WPD, following along with dimeby8's tutorial:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dimeby8/archive/2006/09/27/774259.aspx
I haven't gotten the transfer working yet (I'm converting it over to C#), but I can at least see the device and enumerate the files in Win7. In XP I get nothing. It's pointed out in this thread that WPD won't enumerate devices on XP (see Lisa O [MSFT]'s post):
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowssdk/thread/56459945-b757-45df-8c9f-4ebdbbb18a2c
So WIA is out because it won't do video.
And WPD is out because it won't do XP.
Has anyone gotten this to work? Am I missing something simple here?
Thanks.