putting controls on forms

Question

Hello, Im running windows 11 and have visual studio 2022. Im making a vb.net applications. Ive selected windows forms application. I have been able to add a number of controls such as text boxes, list boxes and button, but I need to add a windows media player control to it. I went in the toolbox and successfully imported the player along with some other controls (windows forms 2.0). But they are all greyed out along with the media player. Also I cannot find the msserial control anywhere. Does anyone have any insight into this?
Thanks,
Jeff

Answer 1

Hi @jeff luminais ,
According to Using the Windows Media Player Control with Microsoft Visual Studio,

You can add the Windows Media Player 9 Series or later ActiveX control to a .NET Framework application through the Toolbox in Visual Studio.

So you should create a Windows Forms App(.NET Framework), not Windows Forms App.

Best Regards.
Jiachen Li

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Answer 2

Select a .NET Framework project, not .NET (Core) :

Answer 3

Yes, what I realized is that in my copy of visual studio which is the community version, I am not provided an option to creat a net framework using vb. The only option I have is to use c#. So Ive decided to just go ahead and convert it to c#. I found a useful web tool to do a line by line conversion from vb6 code to c#. Its far far from perfect but it did about 40% of the work for me. Thank you for your response.
Jeff

Answer 4

As a follow up, if you install the correct bits and parts, and make sure you create a windows vb.net "framework" application?

Then yes, I am freely able to drop in the windows meda player
(and I am on an new laptop - windows 11).

So, after you create the project, then you most certianly do NOT want to add activeX form 2.0 controls.

So, with a new project, then I add the media player to the toolbox like this:

then choose this one:

Ok, now create (add) a new form, and drag + drop the windows media player onto the form.

Thus this:

So, media player - no problem.

Now the ms-serial control? Hum, that we need some googling for this - I'm not sure if the msserial control is avaible, but you can most certainly use/create serial control code in vb.net.

As a FYI?
The above is being done on a new windows 11 computer, and vs2022 community edition.

Edit:

And I do see the serial control in the tool box - you don't even have to add it.

thus:

So, from what I can tell, both the serial port, and the windows media control exist, and work fine in vs2022 community edition. They have NOT removed these features.