How to check what version of Windows Media Player is installed on the machine?

Question

As far as I know Windows Media Player 10 is the minimum requirement for WPF MediaElement to work. What is a decent way to programmatically (from .NET) check if WMP is presen

Answer 1

i found this solution:

FileVersionInfo inf = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles), "Windows Media Player", "wmplayer.exe"));
        if (inf.FileVersion.StartsWith("9"))
        {...