Windows Media Player For Professionals

Explore the exciting possibilities available to you in Windows Media Player. Deploy the Player with customized settings throughout your organization or business, distribute the Player with applications or Web sites, or develop custom products and services based on the Player.

Highlights

Get the Windows Media Player SDK
The Windows Media Player 11 SDK is now available at the MSDN Web site. The complete SDK is available as part of the Windows SDK.

Distribute Windows Media Player
The distribution license for Windows Media Player entitles you to distribute the Player both as part of your application and from your Web site.

Deploying Windows Media Player in the Enterprise
Learn about the concepts and steps that are involved in deploying the Player in your enterprise, including using skins and Group Policy settings to control use of the player.

Technical articles

Compatibility and Future Support for the Windows Media Player ActiveX Control
Learn about issues and changes in the behavior of the Windows Media Player 6.4 ActiveX control that you might experience after installing Windows Media Player 9 Series or later.

Making Windows Media Player Plug-ins Work Together
Discover the techniques you can use to enable Microsoft Windows Media Player plug-ins to interoperate. The article covers two common scenarios: Connecting a UI plug-in to a DSP plug-in and connecting a rendering plug-in to a DSP plug-in.

Creating Karaoke, Windows Media Player Style
See how to write a Microsoft Windows Media Player Audio DSP plug-in that can remove primary vocals from audio files.

Windows Media Player Online Stores
Digital media content providers: Find out how to integrate your content using Windows Media Player.

Windows Media Player 11 is now available

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