Windows Media Player 11 SDK What's New for the Windows Media Player Control 

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What's New for the Windows Media Player Control

The Windows Media Player ActiveX control adds new functionality in this version. It also updates and extends existing functionality from the previous version. New and updated features include:

• New interfaces for discovering and accessing libraries. See the following topics:
  • IWMPLibrary Interface
  • IWMPLibrary Interface (VB and C#)
  • IWMPLibraryServices Interface
  • IWMPLibraryServices Interface (VB and C#)
  • IWMPLibrarySharingServices Interface
• New interfaces and objects for retrieving rich metadata sets from libraries. See the following topics:
  • IWMPMediaCollection2 Interface
  • IWMPMediaCollection2 Interface (VB and C#)
  • IWMPQuery Interface
  • IWMPQuery Interface (VB and C#)
  • IWMPStringCollection2 Interface
  • IWMPStringCollection2 Interface (VB and C#)
  • MediaCollection Object
  • Query Object
  • StringCollection Object
• A new interface for CD ripping. See IWMPCdromRip Interface or IWMPCdromRip Interface (VB and C#).
• A new interface for CD burning. See IWMPCdromBurn Interface or IWMPCdromBurn Interface (VB and C#).
• A new interface for controlling how Windows Media Player monitors folders for digital media content. See IWMPFolderMonitorServices Interface.
• A new interface for device synchronization. See IWMPSyncDevice2 Interface.
• A new interface to configure the video renderer. See IWMPVideoRenderConfig Interface. An application that embeds the Windows Media Player control and provides a custom video presenter can implement the new IWMPUserEventSink interface.
• New events. See IWMPEvents3 Interface and Player Object.
• New Attributes. See the Alphabetical Attribute Reference.

The following features have been deprecated since the previous version:

• IWMPGraphCreation::GraphCreationPostRender (deprecated)
• IWMPGraphCreation::GraphCreationPreRender (deprecated)

See Also

• What's New

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