IWMSCPPluginAdmin.Port (C#)

The Port property specifies and retrieves the port number used by the protocol.

IWMSCPPluginAdmin.Port = int;int = IWMSCPPluginAdmin.Port;

Property Value

int containing the port number.

Remarks

If you are behind a firewall, you must explicitly open an appropriate port for each protocol you want to use. The following table identifies the incoming ports you must open for each protocol.

Note

Note   Windows Media Player 9 Series and later does not use the MMS protocol.

Note

The MMS protocol is not supported in Windows Server 2008 operating systems.

Protocol

Port

MMST

TCP port 1755

MMSU

UDP port 1755

RTSPT

TCP port 554

RTSPU

UDP port 5005

HTTP

TCP port 80

You must also open the outgoing UDP ports 1024-5000 to send data to Windows Media Player and other clients.

Example

using Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// Declare variables.
WMSServer Server;
IWMSPlugin Plugin;
IWMSCPPluginAdmin CPAdmin;

try {
    // Create a new WMSServer object.
    Server = new WMSServerClass();

    // Retrieve the plug-in to be configured.
    Plugin = Server.ControlProtocols[
                        "WMS RTSP Server Control Protocol"];

    // Retrieve the custom interface of the plug-in.
    CPAdmin =
        (IWMSCPPluginAdmin)Plugin.CustomInterface;

    // Bind the plug-in to a specific port.
    CPAdmin.Port = 31667;
}
catch (COMException comExc) {
    // TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
}
catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

Requirements

Reference: Add a reference to Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.

Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop.

Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.dll.

Library: WMSServerTypeLib.dll.

Platform: Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family.

See Also

Reference

IWMSCPPluginAdmin Object (C#)