Trouble finding file format plugin template or example

Using XP, Photoshop CS2, CS2 SDK, and VS .NET 2005.
I can find offered file format plugins, but they're compiled already. Can anyone point me toward a tutorial, sample or template for format plugins? Also, that chapter seems to be missing from the API guide (Photoshop API Guide.pdf that came with the SDK). It should be chapter 9, but it and chapter 6 are missing. Any idea why or where I can find the missing chapter?

Adobe likes distributing a cut-down SDK. You need to apply for the "Advanced" SDK.Searching for "Photoshop File Format Plugin" with or without "sample", "example", or "template" returns a lot of results. They're about the JPEG2000 plugin or the format of a plugin, etc.But still you can go through google for more help.
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Filenames
12x12ok
12x24ok
ok
nok
nok
nok
ok
hdots
17280
17280
23160
23180
30001
32768
32768
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8640
17280
23160
23180
30001
32768
32768
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149299200
298598400
536385600
537312400
900060001
1.074E+09
1.074E+09
hdots + vdots
25920
34560
46320
46360
60002
65536
65536
hdpi,vdpi
1440:720
1440:720
1440:720
1440:720
1440:720
1440:720
1440:720
#channels
4
4
4
4
4
4
5
#bpp
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
compression
Packbits
Packbits
Packbits
Packbits
Packbits
fileLength(bytes)
8593776
8647536
14365054
17063936
21258240
filesize (MB)
356
712
8.19
8.24
13.7
16.27
20.27
filesize (GB)
0.348
0.69
0.008
0.008
0.0134
0.016
0.0198

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Andrey_Dmitriev wrote:
In LabVIEW 2015 the new "fast file format" was introduced:
Is it possible to get "fast" application also for PlugIn-based architecture and get LLBs or packed libraries in "fast file format"? Can someone explain, what means "LabVIEW does not use the Application Builder object cache" and how this "fast load" mechanism technically working?
Thank you in advance,
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