How to blur the windows media player in windows form on a button click?

Question

Assaliam-o-Alaikum
i want to disable the functionality of media player by default.But when button clicked it would enabled.
Any idea how to implement it.
thanks

Answer 1

Assaliam-o-Alaikum
i want to disable the functionality of media player by default.But when button clicked it would enabled.
Any idea how to implement it.
thanks
Hi,
It seems that you want to disable that media player, the way shared by Pisteuon works for creating a blur for both window and controls.
If you want to disable that media player, you could consider using the following way, in this case we need the class below.
ImageCapture.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace YourNamespace
public class ImageCapture
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct RECT
public int left;
public int top;
public int right;
public int bottom;
[DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr GetDesktopWindow();
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr GetWindowDC(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr ReleaseDC(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hDC);
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr GetWindowRect(IntPtr hWnd, ref RECT rect);
public const int SRCCOPY = 0x00CC0020;
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
public static extern bool BitBlt(IntPtr hObject, int xDest, int yDest, int width, int height, IntPtr hObjectSource, int xSrc, int ySrc, int dwRop);
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr CreateCompatibleBitmap(IntPtr hDC, int width, int height);
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr CreateCompatibleDC(IntPtr hDC);
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
public static extern bool DeleteDC(IntPtr hDC);
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
public static extern bool DeleteObject(IntPtr hObject);
[DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr SelectObject(IntPtr hDC, IntPtr hObject);
public static Image CaptureControlImage(Control c)
IntPtr hSrc = c.Handle;
IntPtr hdcSrc = GetWindowDC(hSrc);
RECT rWindow = new RECT();
GetWindowRect(hSrc, ref rWindow);
int width = rWindow.right - rWindow.left;
int height = rWindow.bottom - rWindow.top;
IntPtr hdcDest = CreateCompatibleDC(hdcSrc);
IntPtr hBitmap = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdcSrc, width, height);
IntPtr hOld = SelectObject(hdcDest, hBitmap);
BitBlt(hdcDest, 0, 0, width, height, hdcSrc, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);
SelectObject(hdcDest, hOld);
DeleteDC(hdcDest);
ReleaseDC(hSrc, hdcSrc);
Image img = Image.FromHbitmap(hBitmap);
return img;
Add a panel to bring to front, and draw what that media player looks as its background image.
Panel myPanel; //add that panel to disable that media player
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
if (this.myPanel == null)
myPanel = new Panel();
myPanel.Size = this.axWindowsMediaPlayer1.Size;
myPanel.Location = this.axWindowsMediaPlayer1.Location;
DWM_BLURBEHIND bb = new DWM_BLURBEHIND(true);
DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow((IntPtr)this.axWindowsMediaPlayer1.Handle, ref bb);
myPanel.BackgroundImage = ImageCapture.CaptureControlImage(this.axWindowsMediaPlayer1 );
this.Controls.Add(myPanel);
myPanel.BringToFront();
//remove that panel to enable that media player
private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{ if (this.myPanel != null)
this.Controls.Remove(myPanel);
myPanel = null;
Result:
 Regards,
Carl
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