Compatibility Considerations

Operating in forward or backward compatibility modes has the following restrictions.

• The control only fires events that are supported for the mode in which an instance of the control is created.
• Many methods and properties exposed by the Windows Media Player control have the same name as properties and methods exposed by the NetShow version 2.0 and ActiveMovie controls. Most of these attributes exhibit the functionality of their predecessors. However, instances of methods with the same name and different behavior always function in the mode in which they are created.
• Mode-switching is only allowed on properties accessed at run time. You cannot set properties for alternate modes at design time.