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Syncing YouTube Videos to iTunes and Zune

iTunes and Zune provide different mechanisms for syncing videos, but we will build one interface that we can use for both videos, to keep a standard mechanism for syncing files (see Example 4-35 and Example 4-36). This interface will sync files for a given device based on the file path.

Example 4-35.  C# interface for syncing to iTunes and Zune

interface IVideoService
{
  void Sync(string filePath);
}

Example 4-36.  Visual Basic interface for syncing with iTunes and Zune

Friend Interface IVideoService
  Sub Sync(ByVal filePath As String)
End Interface

Syncing Videos to iTunes

To sync YouTube videos to iTunes, we'll use the iTunes COM interop library. This library is automatically included when you install iTunes, and you can add it to your Visual Studio project by clicking in the Solution Explorer and selecting Add Reference.... Then, click the COM tab and select the iTunes 1.11 Type Library, which is a COM wrapper class that simplifies automating iTunes with .NET code.

As you can see in Example 4-37 and Example 4-38, we import the iTunesLib namespace and create a private member named iTunes.

Example 4-37.  C# class declaration for iTunes class

using iTunesLib; ...