About the PlayerApplication Object
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The PlayerApplication object is used for remoting Windows Media Player. It provides the functionality required to switch between a remoted Windows Media Player control and the full mode of the Player.
Remoting enables a Windows Media Player control embedded in a C++ application to use the same playback engine as the Player. This means that usually you will use the PlayerApplication object in C++ code using the COM interfaces. There is a special case, however, where you can embed the Windows Media Player control that displays a Windows Media Player skin as its user interface. In this case, PlayerApplication can be programmed using JScript in the skin code.
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