Program a Media-Player in C#

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Huw Collingbourne

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1 - Creating a WPF Media Player

1 - WPF Foundations.html

1 - Welcome to the Course.mp4

02:42

2 - CSharpReadMe.pdf

2 - ReadMe.html

3 - A First Media Player.mp4

04:32

4 - SourceCode.zip

4 - Source Code Archive Download.html

5 - The Three NET Designers.mp4

03:13

6 - Introduction To XAML.mp4

03:00

7 - Design with XAML.mp4

04:22

8 - Creating Eventhandlers.mp4

06:22

9 - Sliders.mp4

04:52

10 - Controlling Media Playback.mp4

03:53

11 - Previewing Mouse Events.mp4

06:19

12 - Timers.mp4

05:49

13 - Setting Slider Defaults.mp4

02:44

14 - Loading Selected Media Files.mp4

01:19

15 - Menus.mp4

05:33

16 - Loading a Media File.mp4

03:14

17 - Loading A Folder.mp4

04:00

18 - Music NonStop.mp4

03:31

19 - When Things Go Wrong.mp4

04:51

2 - Playlists Files and Styles

2 - Playlists Files and Styles.html

20 - Creating Playlists.mp4

02:12

21 - XML Writers.mp4

04:25

22 - Saving and Loading XML Data.mp4

04:45

23 - Customisable Playlists.mp4

03:41

24 - Drag and Drop Media Files.mp4

03:12

25 - Styling the User Interface.mp4

01:30

26 - Effects.mp4

04:10

27 - An Alternative Glow Effect.mp4

03:03

28 - Animating an effect.mp4

03:03

29 - Another approach to animation.mp4

06:27

30 - Styles.mp4

05:01

31 - Obtaining Media File Information.mp4

05:40

32 - Multiple windows.mp4

05:00

33 - Showing File Information.mp4

02:03

34 - Saving and Loading Playlists.mp4

04:56

35 - What next.mp4

03:08

Description

Create a video and audio-player using C# and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

What You'll Learn?

Understand how to design using the WPF.
Develop a functional and useful media-playing tool.
Add styles and effects to controls
Read and write XML data to and from disk
Use Windows Shell functions to obtain file metadata
Implement file drag-and-drop

Who is this for?

Intermediate C# programmers looking for a project to extend their knowledge

C# programmers who want to learn to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Programmers wanting to understand how to play media, write XML data and query file metadata

What You Need to Know?

Visual Studio (free or commercial edition).

Basic knowledge of C# programming (complete beginners should first study my ‘Learn C# Programming’ course)

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Description
In this course you will follow the development of a complete project from the ground up. It explains how to use design and code a WPF program in Visual Studio. You will end up with a utility that plays audio and video, controls playback volume, balance, position and speed.
In this course you will develop programs that do all the following:
Play video and audio files
Load single media files or entire folders of files
Drag-and-drop files direct from the Windows Explorer
Create named playlists that can be saved and loaded to and from disk
Change the volume, position, speed and balance of a playing track
Use styles and effects to change the user interface appearance
Use Timers to respond to tick events
Use file dialogs to save and load files
Read and write structured XML files to and from disk
Create applications with multiple windowsÂ
Use Windows Shell functions to obtain file metadata
This is a project-based course that comes with all the source code ready-to-run. It provides a great way for C# programmer to move beyond the basics to explore the development of more complexÂ C# applications using the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).
Who this course is for:
Intermediate C# programmers looking for a project to extend their knowledge
C# programmers who want to learn to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Programmers wanting to understand how to play media, write XML data and query file metadata

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Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics. Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Java programming column for PC Plus Magazine. He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, C++, Smalltalk and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, PC Pro, and PC Plus. In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of 1980s murder mysteries. At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control.

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