Windows Media Station Control Objects

The Windows Media Station control manages a number of objects, many of which are collections of other objects.

Note Windows Media Station control collection objects are zero-based arrays, in contrast to the one-based arrays usually used by Visual Basic collection objects.

The Windows Media Station control object manages the following objects:

• Channels collection object, which contains a number of Channel objects.
  
  
• Channel objects, each of which can manage a ChannelFormats collection object.
  
  
• ChannelFormats collection object, which contains a number of ChannelFormat objects.
  
  
• ChannelFormat objects, each of which can manage a StreamDescriptors collection object.
  
  
• StreamDescriptors collection object, which contains a number of StreamDescriptor objects.
  
  
• StreamDescriptor objects, which describe the characteristics of a stream.
  
  
• Streams collection object, which contains a number of Stream objects.
  
  
• Stream objects, which define the content of a media stream.
  
  
• Clients collection object, which contains a number of Client objects.
  
  
• Client objects, which define administrative clients.
  
  
• HostAddresses collection object, which contains a number of Address objects.
  
  
• Address objects, which define multicast addresses.

The following chart depicts the hierarchy of the collections and objects managed by the Windows Media Station control:

The Windows Media Station service object has several events, methods, and properties. In addition, each object managed by the Windows Media Station control can have its own events, methods, or properties.