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Windows Media Player 11 SDK Getting Started with the Plug-in Wizard 

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Getting Started with the Plug-in Wizard

To set up your development environment for creating Windows Media Player plug-ins, you must install the following items:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET or later
  • Windows Media Player 9 Series or later
  • Windows SDK, which includes the Windows Media Player SDK
  • Windows Media Player Plug-in Wizard

Installing the Wizard

If you ran the Visual Studio Registration utility that comes with the Windows SDK, the wizard is probably already installed for you. In this case, simply follow the directions in the next topic, Using the Plug-in Wizard with Visual Studio,to use the wizard. Otherwise, you must manually install the Windows Media Player plug-in wizard.

Note  In Windows Vista, you must run the Visual Studio Registration utility with a full administrator access token. Right-click the utility's name or icon, and click Run as administrator.

Perform the following steps to install the wizard manually.

  1. Using Windows Explorer, locate the folder where you installed the SDK. Search for the subfolder named \Wizards\VSNET.
  2. Locate the three files that have a .vsz file name extension. You must choose one of these files, depending on which version of Visual Studio you have. The following table lists the files and the versions of Visual Studio they correspond to.
File name Visual Studio version
Wmpwiz.vsz Visual Studio .NET 2002
Wmpwiz2003.vsz Visual Studio .NET 2003
Wmpwiz2005.vsz Visual Studio 2005

  1. Copy the following two files, along with the appropriate file from step 2, to a temporary folder:

    • wmpwiz.ico
    • wmpwiz.vsdir

  2. If the .vsz file you copied is not already named wmpwiz.vsz, rename the .vsz file by deleting the year from the file name. Using Notepad, edit the file named wmpwiz.vsz. Locate the following line: 

    Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH = <path to wmpwiz directory goes here>"

    Change the value for ABSOLUTE_PATH to the path where the wizard files are located.

    Example:

    Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH = C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\vx.x\Samples\multimedia\WMP_11\Wizards\VSNET"
  1. Locate the subfolder named vcprojects where you installed Visual Studio. Paste into this folder the three files that you copied earlier. The wizard is now installed.

See Also

  • Building a Plug-in
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