Using the Windows Media Unicast Admin Control

With the Windows Media Unicast Admin control, you can leverage the well-tested functionality for managing Windows Media component services, which include:

• Setting and retrieving server properties, such as the maximum aggregate bandwidth and the maximum number of clients.
  
  
• Monitoring client behavior, including connections, disconnections, and titles played.
  
  
• Monitoring overall system activity, including server status, administration functions, and server limits.
  
  
• Filtering the types of events received by the control.

The properties exposed by the Admin control are run-time properties - that is, they are not available when you are designing your application. The values of these properties cannot be set or returned until the Connect method has completed successfully.

As with any other ActiveX control, you can use the Admin control directly in HTML pages (with or without VBScript), and in Visual Basic or Visual C++ applications. There are several convenient ways to embed ActiveX controls in HTML pages. You can use the ActiveX Control Pad, Visual InterDev, or Microsoft FrontPage. For more information on using ActiveX controls, see the ActiveX page at the Microsoft Web site. You can also find additional information and resources listed under More Information and Examples in the Windows Media Player Control Software Development Kit.