Windows Media Player for CE5 and Media Player Series 9

[Guest]

Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this area, but i am hoping to develop a
custom application for a windows CE 5 based device to play movies using
windows media components.

I am using Visual Studio 2005, and my target device is Windows CE with Media
Player 9 (or I suppose 10 would be an option). I have also installed the
Media Player 9 SDK.

If i create a project in VS based on the Smart Device > Windows CE 5.0 >
Device Application template I cannot see the windows media controls in the
toolbox. However if I choose a Windows > Windows Application template i can
see the control and use it.

I am missing something vital to be able to develop my application? Or indeed
is it possible?

Your help in advance is very much appreciated.

Jonathan Jones

 

[Guest]

The Compact Framework itself doesn't have any control that will allow you to
play media on that device. About the best you can achieve is to
CreateProcess to launch Media Player and then post messages to it for
control.

Windows Mobile devices with WMP 10 can use COM interop to create a control.
MSDN has an article that cover how that's done, but the technique will not
work on generic Windows CE 5.0 or 6.0 devices.

OpenNETCF does have a control that works for media playback on CE devices,
however it is not a free control:

http://opennetcf.com/mediacontrols