How to get duration/time elapsed of a media in DirectX VB .NET

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Hi, I am creating a Audio Player Application using DirectX SDK and VB .NET, i want to show the user Duration and Time elapsed of the Audio File, how can i achieve this?
P.S I'm Using VS 2010 Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit...

Posted 31-Mar-15 5:08am

Akash Rajendra

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-31T06:01:00

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Easiest way is to use the WindowsApiCodePack, which will let you just ask windows for the duration - there is a description of how to do exactly that here: How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7[^]

Posted 31-Mar-15 6:01am

OriginalGriff