control Windows Media Player with Visual Studio 2005

[morphnike]

hi guys,

I've been looking a whole day after how I can control WMP inside Visual Basic. I'm not using a WMP control, I want to stop, play, pause WMP thats running on Windows XP itself and not on my application.
Can I control those processes?

Any suggestions?

 

[vis781]

Just a quick question really, Why aren't you using the windows media player control?

 

[morphnike]

Look I have this project for commercial purposes.
it exist of 2 forms, one for configuration, where I choose the products which are going to be show on the slideshow (some products have videos in stead of pictures). The 2nd form is for the slideshow, where you see in fullscreen the picture of the product and the price. When there is a video available for the product, that video is shown.
I already use a media player control for the movie.
I want to use Windows Media Player for player the radio as a background, but it has to pause when the movie on the slideshow is going to play, cause it has its own sound.
When I use a second media control on my form, the whole application freaks out, it doesnt show movies anymore, etc...
I've tried everything, at least when I use Windows Media Player on windows xp, my application doesnt freak out.