Using the Windows Media Player Control with Microsoft …
You can add the Windows Media Player 9 Series or later ActiveX control to a .NET Framework application through the Toolbox in Visual Studio.
Before creating a new project, make sure that the latest version of Windows Media Player and the Windows Media Player SDK is installed on your computer.
Start Visual Studio, then create a new project.
In Visual Studio, open the Toolbox.
If Windows Media Player does not appear in the Components portion of the Toolbox, do the following:
If Windows Media Player does not appear in the list, click Browse, and then open Wmp.dll, which should be in the WindowsSystem32 folder.
You can now select Windows Media Player in the Toolbox and add it to a form.
Visual Studio gives the Windows Media Player control a default name such as "axWindowsMediaPlayer1". You may want to change the name to something more easily remembered, such as "Player".
Adding the Windows Media Player control from the Toolbox also adds references to two libraries created by Visual Studio, AxWMPLib and WMPLib. You can find them in the Solution Explorer under References.
To make using the objects in the Player namespace easier, you should include the namespace in the using or imports directives of your files, as follows:
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