I'm sure WPF could produce a GUI replica, but is it actually made with WPF?
I've done some searching, but I'm not able to find what GUI library they used.
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Windows Media Player is a Win32 application, not a .NET runtime, so if they're using WPF it's through some "voodoo magic". – Nathan Taylor Jan 06 '10 at 21:30
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Good point, I didn't think of. – Finglas Jan 06 '10 at 21:32
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It is almost certainly all C++ with mixed Assembly against standard WIN32 APIs and DirectX. WPF came out with .NET 3.0 in late 2006 and Windows Media Player 10 came out in late 2004. I would also add that there's nothing exceptionally unique about the Windows Media Player UI given that non-square windows and leveraging DirectX for animation outside of full screen has been around since the mid 90s all the way back to NT 4.0 and Windows 95.
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DirectX eh? So it has a dependency on DirectX for the fancy GUI components? – Finglas Jan 06 '10 at 21:35
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Early Windows Media Player was very generic, but DirectX has been available for Windows all the way back to Windows 95 and NT 4.0. – Keith Adler Jan 06 '10 at 21:36
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