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Getting Started with the Windows Media Player SDK

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[The feature associated with this page, Windows Media Player SDK, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of Windows Media Player SDK, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

To create your plug-in, you first need to install Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 and Visual Studio 2003. You must also install the Pocket PC 2003 SDK or the Smartphone 2003 SDK, which are separate downloads. To compile and run the project, a Pocket PC or Smartphone device running the Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition operating system must be synchronized with the development computer by using Microsoft ActiveSync® 3.7.1 or later.

Because UI plug-ins on Windows Mobile devices use the same plug-in model as the desktop versions, you can use the Windows Media Player Plug-in Wizard as a starting point when creating a background UI plug-in that will work with Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.

To create UI plug-in code, do the following:

  1. Open Visual Studio 2003, and start a new project in Visual C++.
  2. Select Windows Media Player Plug-in Wizard from the Templates pane.
  3. Name your project NetworkPlugin and click OK.
  4. Select UI Plug-in and click Next.
  5. Select Background and click Next.
  6. Click Next to finish the wizard. If you are going to monitor events with your plug-in, you must check Listen to events before finishing the wizard, and you should read the documentation for the IWMPEvents interface to find out which events are supported on Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.

Now that you have created your UI plug-in code, you need to create an empty Windows CE DLL project in eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0. Then copy your wizard-generated source files to that new project so that they will compile with the ARM4 compiler.

To create an empty project

  1. Start a new project in eMbedded Visual C++, and then select WCE Dynamic-Link Library from the Projects pane.
  2. Name your project and click OK.
  3. Make sure An empty Windows CE DLL project is selected, and then click Finish.
  4. Click the Project menu item.
  5. Select Add to Project, and then click Files.
  6. Select the C++ files you created with the plug-in wizard, and then click OK.

Creating a User Interface Plug-in for Windows Media Player 10 Mobile

IWMPEvents Interface