adding windows media player to forms

Question

i recently saw a thread about adding windows media player to forms so it can play multimedia
does anyone know how to does this becasue the thread i saw did not help

Answer 1

alright i got it in the forms but i get this error

An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll

Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.WMPLib.1.0, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Answer 2

How did you go with this? I have been using Win Media Player without issue until today. It runs fine but I receive the same message in VSS:

Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.WMPLib.1.0, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Answer 3

Never mind.

 

I had saved a backup last night. Works fine. No idea how the other version got corrupted because I didn't change anything other than totally unrelated code.

 

Answer 4

i have the same problem that you had can u please help me

Answer 5

Big Bill wrote:

alright i got it in the forms but i get this error An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.WMPLib.1.0, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Hi Bill,

 

Based on my understanding, you are getting this error message when you drag&drop a windows media player com component from toolbox to your form. In this case, VS IDE will generate wrapper classes for the com component automatically after you build your project, e.g. AxInterop.WMPLib.dll and Interop.WPMLib.dll, there are generated to output directory(e.g. bin, debug or release folder), when you run form application from IDE(Ctrl+F5), the working directory of your windows form application is in project directory, which is under "solution_name\project_name", there is no wrapper dll exist here, so it reports a file not found exception. To resolve the problem, keep a copy of wrapper dlls in project directory as well.

 

thanks

rico