Windows Media Player 11 SDK The LaunchPage Method 

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The LaunchPage Method

The LaunchPage method provides the primary functionality of the plug-in, which is to launch a search page containing information about the artist of the media item passed to the method.

This method is called by the OnSearch method using the current Media object.

The following code is used to implement this method:

void LaunchPage(IWMPMedia *pMedia)
{
    USES_CONVERSION;

    HRESULT hr;
    CComBSTR bstrType;
    CComBSTR bstrArtist;

    // Get the name of the artist.
    bstrType = _T("artist");
    hr = pMedia->getItemInfo(bstrType, &bstrArtist);
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) 
    {
        // Create the search URL.
        TCHAR szSearch[MAX_PATH];
        _stprintf(szSearch, _T("https://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=%s"), OLE2T(bstrArtist));
        CComBSTR bstrURL = szSearch;

        // Launch the search page.
        m_pPlugin->m_spCore->launchURL(bstrURL);
    }
    else
    {
        MessageBox(_T("Failed to get artist information from media."), _T("Warn"), MB_OK | MB_ICONWARNING);
    }
}

See Also

• Implementing CPluginWindow

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