Program a Media-Player in C#

Program a Media-Player in C#, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 35 lectures, 2 quizzes, based on 60 reviews, and has 544 subscribers.

You will learn about 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 This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate C# programmers looking for a project to extend their knowledge or C# programmers who want to learn to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Programmers wanting to understand how to play media, write XML data and query file metadata It is particularly useful for Intermediate C# programmers looking for a project to extend their knowledge or C# programmers who want to learn to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Programmers wanting to understand how to play media, write XML data and query file metadata.

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Summary

Title: Program a Media-Player in C#

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 35

Number of Quizzes: 2

Number of Published Lectures: 35

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 37

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 37

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will 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 Should Attend

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

Target Audiences

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

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 windows�
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 complex C# applications using the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Creating a WPF Media Player

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Course

Lecture 2: ReadMe

Lecture 3: A First Media Player

Lecture 4: Source Code Archive [Download]

Lecture 5: The Three .NET Designers

Lecture 6: Introduction To XAML

Lecture 7: Design with XAML

Lecture 8: Creating Event-handlers

Lecture 9: Sliders

Lecture 10: Controlling Media Playback

Lecture 11: Previewing Mouse Events

Lecture 12: Timers

Lecture 13: Setting Slider Defaults

Lecture 14: Loading Selected Media Files

Lecture 15: Menus

Lecture 16: Loading a Media File

Lecture 17: Loading A Folder

Lecture 18: Music Non-Stop

Lecture 19: When Things Go Wrong!

Chapter 2: Playlists, Files and Styles

Lecture 1: Creating Playlists

Lecture 2: XML Writers

Lecture 3: Saving and Loading XML Data

Lecture 4: Customisable Playlists

Lecture 5: Drag and Drop Media Files

Lecture 6: Styling the User Interface

Lecture 7: Effects

Lecture 8: An Alternative Glow Effect

Lecture 9: Animating an effect

Lecture 10: Another approach to animation

Lecture 11: Styles

Lecture 12: Obtaining Media File Information

Lecture 13: Multiple windows

Lecture 14: Showing File Information

Lecture 15: Saving and Loading Playlists

Lecture 16: What next?

Instructors

Huw Collingbourne
Director of Technology, SapphireSteel Software

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2 stars: 0 votes
3 stars: 6 votes
4 stars: 18 votes
5 stars: 33 votes

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