Embedding Windows Media Player into a Windows Mobile 6 App..

Hello,

I am developing an application for Windows Mobile 6 using VS 2008. The
application is written in C# for the .NET CF platform. This is a sort of a
multimedia browser intended for museums and it mixes browsing of content
like images sounds and video. The images and sounds have been going very well
but now I must find a way to embed the Windows Media Player control within
this application (i.e. host the WMP ActiveX control within the .NET
application windows form) because I do not want that this application is ever
exited or overriden by going in to the WMP mobile application itself when
video content should be played.

I have been able to quite easily and quickly embed this control in a .NET
desktop application, but when I am working on a mobile application targeted
for Windows Mobile 6 in VS 2008 and try to add the WMP control to the toolbox
palette it just will not appear there, so how can I make it appear on the
form of the mobile application?

If someone here has the experience of how to do this I would very much
appreciate if you
could describe to me the steps of how to make it work, or if not, then it
would
be nice if you could point me somewhere in the right direction or provide me
with a contact who might be able to provide support for this.

Regards.

Helgi

There are 2 options that I know of:

1. Follow the MSDN tutorial for ActiveX Hosting:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446515.aspx
Note the bug:
http://blog.opennetcf.com/ctacke/2008/08/14/BugInMSDNActiveXHostingCode.aspx

2. Use a commercial control:
http://www.opennetcf.com/Products/Controls/MediaPlayerControls/tabid/2...Default


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"helgip" <u46264@uwe> wrote in message news:8a4c5cf599639@uwe...
> Hello,
>
> I am developing an application for Windows Mobile 6 using VS 2008. The
> application is written in C# for the .NET CF platform. This is a sort of a
> multimedia browser intended for museums and it mixes browsing of content
> like images sounds and video. The images and sounds have been going very
> well
> but now I must find a way to embed the Windows Media Player control within
> this application (i.e. host the WMP ActiveX control within the .NET
> application windows form) because I do not want that this application is
> ever
> exited or overriden by going in to the WMP mobile application itself when
> video content should be played.
>
> I have been able to quite easily and quickly embed this control in a .NET
> desktop application, but when I am working on a mobile application
> targeted
> for Windows Mobile 6 in VS 2008 and try to add the WMP control to the
> toolbox
> palette it just will not appear there, so how can I make it appear on the
> form of the mobile application?
>
> If someone here has the experience of how to do this I would very much
> appreciate if you
> could describe to me the steps of how to make it work, or if not, then it
> would
> be nice if you could point me somewhere in the right direction or provide
> me
> with a contact who might be able to provide support for this.
>
> Regards.
>
> Helgi
>