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Basic Functionality of Windows Media Device Manager

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The interfaces of Windows Media Device Manager are obtained through standard COM usage. The following sections provide an introduction to some of the methods available to applications and service providers. The code in the examples will run in a simple console application. The following sections are sequential. To use the code in each section, the code from the former section needs to be in place as well as that from the initial topic entitled Instantiating Windows Media Device Manager.

Section Description
Using Windows Media Device Manager from an Application Getting the version number of Windows Media Device Manager and a count of devices represented to Windows Media Device Manager by service providers.
Enumerating and Querying Devices Querying Windows Media Device Manager for interfaces and capabilities of connected devices.
Enumerating and Querying Storages How to determine what storages are available on a device and get information about a storage or its contents.

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