Placing the Windows Media Player Control in a Web Page

As a Microsoft ActiveX control, the Windows Media Player control exposes methods, properties, and event support to other Microsoft Windows-based applications. Although ActiveX controls can be used as components in a variety of programming environments, they are extremely well suited for use in Web pages. ActiveX controls can add exciting dynamic content to previously static Web pages, and they are easy to distribute over networks.

By using a scripting language, such as Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) or Microsoft JScript, you can easily embed the Windows Media Player control in an HTML file. This article explains how to do this, using VBScript for the examples.

This article contains the following sections.

• Embedding the Windows Media Player Control
• Setting Control Properties with the PARAM Tag
• Adding a Simple User Interface for the Control
• Adding the Scripting Code
• Simple Windows Media Player Control Web Page