Chapter 8

Working with the WM9 Software Development Kit (SDK)

This is a big subject for one chapter (and getting bigger by the month, based on the increasing documentation at Microsoft’s web site). At the risk of spreading the material too thin, I’ll break things down along the lines of the basic WM9 components: Player, Encoder, and Server. For each subject area I’ll present sample programs and scripts that exploit the new code libraries now shipping with WM9 that integrate it with the underlying OS and core Microsoft applications.

To work with any SDK, Microsoft of otherwise, you generally need a software development ...

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