How to create a visual studio plugin that controls winamp?

Question

I often listen to music while I code.
Switching songs while in the middle of something damages your productivity because you have to move to another window.
How would you implement such a plug in and in what language would I be more comfortable with if I want to interact with the winamp sdk?
I'm a C++ programmer but I can get by with C# as well.

Answer 1

Winamp already has a global hotkey plugin (And several 3rd party hotkey plugins)

As far as the Winamp SDK goes, C/C++ is fine since the plugins are native dlls.

Answer 2

You can look at the Winamp SDK and should be really easy to make it in either C++ or C#. I had a similar problem and had made a addin for the same, it's not a full featured add in but takes care of the basics functionality.

And yes I knew of the global shortcuts before I developed it, sometimes you just are doing everything with the keyboard and don't want to switch to the mouse and sometimes you are using the mouse and don't want to go to the keyboard. It is just a very tiny thing for half a second increase in productivity!

You can make your own or give my addin a try if it fulfills your needs - http://www.tejasshirodkar.com/blog/2009/04/vswinamp-winamp-addon-for-visual-studio/