Interfaces for Visual Basic .NET and C#
[The feature associated with this page, Windows Media Player SDK, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of Windows Media Player SDK, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
This section documents the interfaces exposed by the Windows Media Player ActiveX control.
Several properties and methods of the AxWindowsMediaPlayer Object are used to retrieve specific interfaces. These interfaces, in turn, may have properties and accessor methods for retrieving further interfaces.
The Windows Media Player control exposes the following interfaces.
| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| IWMPCdrom | Accesses a CD or DVD in a drive. |
| IWMPCdromBurn | Provides properties and methods to manage creating audio CDs. |
| IWMPCdromCollection | Accesses a collection of CD or DVD drives. |
| IWMPCdromRip | Provides properties and methods to manage copying, or ripping, tracks from an audio CD. |
| IWMPClosedCaption | Provides a way to include captions with a digital media file. |
| IWMPClosedCaption2 | Provides additional closed-captioning properties and methods. |
| IWMPControls | Represents the transport controls of Windows Media Player, such as Play, Stop, and Pause. |
| IWMPControls2 | Provides an additional control method to freeze playback on the next or previous frame. |
| IWMPControls3 | Provides additional control properties and methods for audio language selection and support. |
| IWMPDVD | Provides properties and methods for working with DVDs. |
| IWMPError | Accesses a collection of IWMPErrorItem interfaces for retrieving error information. |
| IWMPErrorItem | Provides access to error information. |
| IWMPErrorItem2 | Provides an additional error item property for getting an error condition code. |
| IWMPFolderMonitorServices | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPLibrary | Represents a library. |
| IWMPLibraryServices | Provides methods to enumerate libraries. |
| IWMPLibrarySharingServices | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPMedia | Provides a way to set and retrieve the properties of a media item. |
| IWMPMedia2 | Provides access to an additional media item property. |
| IWMPMedia3 | Provides additional methods to access the properties of a media item. |
| IWMPMediaCollection | Provides methods that can be used to organize a large collection of media items. |
| IWMPMediaCollection2 | Provides methods that supplement the IWMPMediaCollection interface. |
| IWMPMetadataPicture | Provides properties for getting information about the image contained in a digital media file that is represented by a WM/Picture metadata attribute. |
| IWMPMetadataText | Provides properties for getting information about complex textual metadata attributes. |
| IWMPNetwork | Provides properties and methods to access statistics relating to the quality of a network connection, and to specify and retrieve the network proxy settings. |
| IWMPPlayerApplication | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPPlayerServices | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPPlayerServices2 | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPPlaylist | Provides properties and methods to organize, manage, and manipulate media items in a playlist. |
| IWMPPlaylistArray | Accesses a collection of IWMPPlaylist interfaces by index number. |
| IWMPPlaylistCollection | Provides methods for manipulating IWMPPlaylist and IWMPPlaylistArray interfaces in a collection. |
| IWMPQuery | Represents a compound query. |
| IWMPSettings | Provides properties and methods that get or set the values of Windows Media Player settings. |
| IWMPSettings2 | Provides properties and a method that supplement the IWMPSettings interface. |
| IWMPStringCollection | Provides a property and a method for accessing a collection of strings by index number. |
| IWMPStringCollection2 | Provides methods that supplement the IWMPStringCollection interface. |
| IWMPSyncDevice | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPSyncDevice2 | Not supported for .NET programming. |
| IWMPSyncServices | Not supported for .NET programming. |
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