Platform SDK: Broadcast Architecture

Loaders Subkey

The Loaders registry subkey contains a subkey for each Guide database loader installed. The name of the subkey for a loader is the loader's globally unique identifier (GUID). The Loaders subkey is as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV
Services\Guide\Loaders\
LoaderGUIDs

LoaderGUIDs is a list of the GUIDs for all loaders. The following table describes the values under each subkey identified by a loader GUID.

Value name Data type Meaning
Name String File name of the DLL for the specified loader.
TuningID Binary Pointer to the tuning spaces handled by the specified loader.
LastAttemptTime Binary Date and time the specified loader most recently started. If this entry does not exist, then the loader never attempted to run.
LastCompletionTime Binary Date and time the specified loader most recently finished running. If this entry does not exist, then the loader never finished running successfully.
LastCompletionResult DWORD Return value from the DLL for the specified loader the last time it finished running.

Each loader can have additional loader-specific information in the Loaders subkey.