C# GUI Library

[Greg]

I start developing a commercial media player with C# in VS 2005. Most of the
form would contain
a picture or a video rectangular(the data and its representation do not
matter here-just the frame and the control buttons). Some other rectangular
areas are devoted to information data (one can see Windows Media Player as a
model, but certainly not as a replica). The external panels should be unique
and also all the control buttons.
What technologies should I consider to the GUI(I mean like WFP or other
commercial libraries)?

Thanks for any reference

Greg

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I start developing a commercial media player with C# in VS 2005. Most of the
form would contain
a picture or a video rectangular(the data and its representation do not
matter here-just the frame and the control buttons). Some other rectangular
areas are devoted to information data (one can see Windows Media Player as a
model, but certainly not as a replica). The external panels should be unique
and also all the control buttons.
What technologies should I consider to the GUI(I mean like WFP or other
commercial libraries)?

WPF (and Silverlight, which is effectively based on WPF) would be the
obvious choice here, as it has good support for multimedia (apparently
- I haven't used that aspect myself).