Can't use Windows Media Player in Visual C#

Question

I am writing a simple Windows Form Application in (recently installed) Visual C# in Visual Studio Community 2019. I want to play a video in a form. The Windows Media Player control wasn't in the toolbox. I was able to install the Windows Media Player component but I got the following error message: "The following controls were successfully added to the toolbox but are not enabled in the active designer."

I don't know how to interpret this message or what steps I can take to make the control available to me. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance for your time and attention.

Answer 1

This error is generally due to incompatibility between the component and the current designer.

Are you using .Net Framework or .Net Core?

When I follow the steps in the documentation to use this control under .Net Framework, it works fine.

Using the Windows Media Player Control with Microsoft Visual Studio

Update(5/26):
When we add a new project. We can see two Windows Forms App.

The first is .Net Framework and the second is .Net Core. You don't need to install anything to use them.

As for the designer, we call this the designer:

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