Windows Media Player 11 SDK Installing the Project Wizard 

Installing the Project Wizard

To set up your development environment for creating type 2 online store plug-in, you must install the following items:

• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 or later
• Windows Media Player 9 Series or later
• Windows SDK, which includes the Windows Media Player SDK
• Online store plug-in wizard

Installing the Wizard

If you ran the Visual Studio Registration utility that comes with the Windows SDK, the wizard is probably already installed for you. In this case, simply follow the directions in the next topic, Creating a Sample Project, to use the wizard. Otherwise, you must manually install the online store plug-in wizard.

Note   In Windows Vista, you must run the Visual Studio Registration utility with a full administrator access token. Right-click the utility's name or icon, and click Run as administrator.

Perform the following steps to install the wizard manually.

1. Using Windows Explorer, locate the folder where you installed the SDK. Search for the subfolder named \Wizards\Services.

2. Locate the two files that have a .vsz file name extension. You must choose one of these files, depending on which version of Visual Studio you have. The following table lists the files and the versions of Visual Studio they correspond to.

   File name	Visual Studio version
   Wmpservices.vsz	Visual Studio .NET 2003
   Wmpservices2005.vsz	Visual Studio 2005

3. Copy the following two files, along with the appropriate file from step 2, to a temporary folder:

   • wmpservices.ico
   • wmpservices.vsdir

4. If the .vsz file you copied is not already named wmpservices.vsz, rename the .vsz file by deleting the year from the file name. Using Notepad, edit the file named wmpservices.vsz. Locate the following line:

   Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH = <path to wmpservices directory goes here>"
   

   Change the value for ABSOLUTE_PATH to the path where the wizard files are located.

   Example:

   Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH = C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\vx.x\Samples\multimedia\WMP_11\Wizards\Services"
   

5. Locate the subfolder named vcprojects where you installed Visual Studio. Paste into this folder the three files that you copied earlier. The wizard is now installed.

Note   If you use Visual Studio .NET 2002, you may still be able to use the project wizard. To do this, try changing the second line in wmpservices.vsz to "Wizard=VsWizard.VsWizardEngine".

See Also

• Building the Plug-in for a Type 2 Online Store