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Playing WMP files in VB.NET?

Magnolia_Fan · 2005-03-04 14:04:32

Could anyone tell me of a way to play Windows Media Player Files using VB.Net, I've made a pretty cool intro for a project I'm doing but I can't get it to work!..Any help would be appreciated

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04-03-2005 3:04pm

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Magnolia_Fan

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Could anyone tell me of a way to play Windows Media Player Files using VB.Net, I've made a pretty cool intro for a project I'm doing but I can't get it to work!..Any help would be appreciated

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#2 04-03-2005 3:24pm
Evil Phil

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Have a look at using DllImport* with winmm.dll. Google should help

*C#, dunno if its the same in VB.

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#3 04-03-2005 3:44pm
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Open the Toolbox, right-click, and select Add/Remove Items

Click on the COM components tab and scroll down to select the Windows Media Player (C:\WINDOWS\System32\wmp.dll)

For a full explanation see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/playingdigitalmediainavisualbasicnetapplication.asp

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#4 07-03-2005 1:07am
Magnolia_Fan

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Thanks for the help I'll give it a try

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