CurrentItemChange Event of the AxWindowsMediaPlayer Object

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The CurrentItemChange event occurs when the value of IWMPControls.currentItem changes.

[C#]
private void player_CurrentItemChange(
  object sender,
  _WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEvent e
)

[Visual Basic]
Private Sub player_CurrentItemChange(  
  sender As Object,
  e As _WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEvent
) Handles player.CurrentItemChange

Event Data

The handler associated with this event is of type AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEventHandler. This handler receives an argument of type AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEvent, which contains the following property related to this event.

Property	Description
pdispMedia	System.ObjectThe new current media item. You can cast this to an IWMPMedia interface to access it.

Examples

The following example demonstrates an event handler for the CurrentItemChange event. The AxWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer object is represented by the variable named player.

// Add a delegate for the CurrentItemChange event
player.CurrentItemChange += new AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEventHandler(player_CurrentItemChange);

private void player_CurrentItemChange(object sender, AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEvent e)
{
    // Display the name of the new media item.
    mediaText.Text = player.currentMedia.name;
}

Public Sub player_CurrentItemChange(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_CurrentItemChangeEvent) Handles player.CurrentItemChange

    ' Display the name of the new media item.
    mediaText.Text = player.currentMedia.name

End Sub

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Version	Windows Media Player 9 Series or later
Namespace	AxWMPLib
Assembly	AxInterop.WMPLib.dll (AxInterop.WMPLib.dll.dll)

See also

AxWindowsMediaPlayer Object (VB and C#)

IWMPControls.currentItem (VB and C#)

IWMPMedia Interface (VB and C#)