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The Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 9 Series Software Development Kit (SDK) provides information and tools to customize Windows Media Player and to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX® control. This documentation also provides information about using Windows Media metafiles.

• The Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 9 Series Software Development Kit (SDK) provides information and tools to customize Windows Media Player and to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX® control. This documentation also provides information about using Windows Media metafiles.
  
  Support for customizing Windows Media Player is provided by:
  
  • Windows Media Player skins. Skins allow you both to customize the Player user interface and to enhance its functionality by using XML.
  • Windows Media Player plug-ins. Windows Media Player includes support for plug-ins that create visualization effects, that perform digital signal processing (DSP) tasks, that add custom user interface elements to the full mode Player, and that render custom data streams in digital media files created using the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) file format.
  
  Embedding the Windows Media Player control is supported for a variety of technologies, including:
  
  • HTML in Web browsers. Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator version 4.7x browsers are supported.
  • Programs created with the Microsoft Visual C++® development system.
  • Programs based on Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC).
  • Programs created using the Microsoft .NET Framework, including programs written in the C# programming language.
  • Microsoft Office.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	SHA1 Hash	Size
WMPlayerSDK.exe	9c255db32a489e920b0e3c48dd4d8ec72ca872a2	9.28 MB

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  For late-breaking or other information that supplements the documentation for the Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series SDK, see the Release Notes for Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series SDK.