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C# - How to use Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX in WPF application

Step 1: To install the Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX Control, begin by launching the setup file (https://www.viscomsoft.com/demo/movieplayerprosetup.exe). Select the desired installation folder for the Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX and continue with the installation on your development computer.

Step 2: Create New Visual C# Project, select Windows Application. 

Step 3: Select File - Add New Project ... Add a Windows Forms Control Library project to the application project, and name the project MoviePlayerProAxLib.

Step 4: In MoviePlayerProAxLib, select UserControl1 and open it.

Step 5: In Toolbox, Right Click Mouse and select Choose Item... , select COM Components Tab, select Movie Player Pro Control, click OK button to confirm.

 Step 6: From the Toolbox, add the Movie Player Pro control to the design surface.

and Press F7 to Build Solution.

Step 7: In the WpfApplication1 project, add a reference to the generated Movie Player Pro ActiveX interoperability assembly.
This assembly is named AxInterop.MOVIEPLAYERLib.dll and was added to the Debug folder of the MoviePlayerProAxLib project when you imported the Movie Player Pro control. 

Step 8: In the WpfApplication1 project, select add a reference, then select Projects tab, select MoviePlayerProAxLib project.

Step 9: Add a reference to the WindowsFormsIntegration assembly, which is named WindowsFormsIntegration.dll.

Step 10: Add a reference to the Windows Forms assembly, which is named System.Windows.Forms.dll.

Step 11: In the WpfApplication1 project, select add a reference, then select COM tab, select Movie Player Pro ActiveX Control

Step 12: Replace the code in MainWindow.xaml with the following code.

added the code as following

  xmlns:wf="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Forms;assembly=System.Windows.Forms"

  xmlns:ax="clr-namespace:AxMOVIEPLAYERLib;assembly=AxInterop.MOVIEPLAYERLib"

 <WindowsFormsHost Name="wfh" Margin="0,0,100,57">

            <ax:AxMoviePlayer x:Name="axMoviePlayer1" />

 </WindowsFormsHost>

Step 14: Insert 3 buttons in MainWindow.xaml 

     <Button Content="Open" Height="34" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="15,271,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="90" Click="button1_Click" />

        <Button Content="Pause" Height="36" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="130,269,0,0" Name="button2" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="96" Click="button2_Click" />

        <Button Content="Play" Height="40" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="259,267,0,0" Name="button3" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="96" Click="button3_Click" />

Step 15: Insert the following code to handle the Open button's click event

private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

 {

            var dialog = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog();

            dialog.DefaultExt = ".mp4"; // Default file extension

            dialog.Filter = "Video Files (.mp4)|*.mp4|mov (*.mov)|*.mov|webm (*.webm)|*.webm|MXF (*.mxf)|*.mxf|Flash (*.swf)|*.swf|AVCHD, TS(*.m2ts,ts)|*.m2ts;*.ts|vob (*.vob)|*.vob|f4v (*.f4v)|*.f4v|flv (*.flv)|*.flv|mpg (*.mpg)|*.mpg|mpeg (*.mpeg)|*.mpeg|wmv (*.wmv)|*.wmv|avi (*.avi)|*.avi|3gp (*.3gp)|*.3gp"; // Filter files by extension

           // Show open file dialog box

            bool? result = dialog.ShowDialog();

            string filename;

            // Process open file dialog box results

            if (result == true)

            {

                 filename = dialog.FileName;

                 axMoviePlayer1.FileName = filename;

                 axMoviePlayer1.Play();

            }

        }

Step 15: Insert the following code to handle the Pause button's click event

 private void button2_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

 {

            axMoviePlayer1.Pause();

 }

Step 16: Insert the following code to handle the Play button's click event

 private void button2_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

 {

      axMoviePlayer1.Play();

 }

Step 17: Press F5 to build and run the application.

Step 18: Download this WPF sample for Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX.