Streaming with Windows Media Services and ASP.NETStreaming with Windows Media Services and ASP.NET March 2, 2005By Shawn WildermuthI love my music. Like many people these days, I have ripped my entire CD collection to MP3 and I buyall my music online. I am also pretty impatient. I never jumped on the 256MB MP3 player bandwagonbecause I couldn’t figure out what songs I couldn’t live without. Now things have changed. I use a30GB MP3 player but I am running out of room. What’s a music addict to do? I realized that since I ampretty connected to the Internet these days, all I should need to do is expose my music collection onan external server and stream them to wherever I am. No need to pick and choose — every albumwould be at my finger tips.ADVERTISEMENTLuckily, Windows Server 2003 has come to the rescue in the form of Windows Media Services. Includedin Windows Server 2003 licensing (Standard and above) is the use of Media Streaming. In this article, Ishow you how to get started streaming your music or video over the Internet with Windows StreamingServices and ASP.NET.Preparing Your ComputerUsing this technology takes a little set-up. Bear with me for a little bit, before we get to code examples.Before we can get started, we need a Windows Server 2003 computer with IIS and ASP.NET set up.Once the computer’s set up with the operating system, we can add Windows Media Services (WMS). Todo this, go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, where you will see the dialog in Figure 1:Figure 1: Add/Remove ProgramsClick on “Add/Remove Windows Components” to show the Windows Components dialog

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