March 2007 - Posts

• Running 3rd Party Addins

  I get this kind of question a LOT, so I'm going to cover it here, allowing me (and other developers) to easily link people to this post and explain how to run 3rd party addins to Media Center. Some Media Center addins will install themselves into your Read More... Posted 26 March 2007 18:34 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 0 Comments

• UI Properties - Making UI's Flexible

  Creating a Title Control As I've mentioned before, UI elements have four components. Content , Properties , Rules and Locals . To make reusable, flexible controls from a UI, we will need to use properties. Let's start by creating a page heading - the Read More... Posted 07 March 2007 21:42 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center

• Just to prove I'm not COMPLETELY full of it...

  Just to prove that I'm not completely making all of this up, I've got an alpha version of a program you may want to try. For those people who love classic arcade action (and have managed to troll eBay to find yourself an arcade machine board or two), Read More... Posted 06 March 2007 20:38 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 8 Comments Filed under: Developer, MCML, Programs

• MCML: UI's

  In this day in age, I'm assuming that you've been exposed to HTML or XML before, since it's hard to be a programmer and not have touched either one for at least a few moments. So today we are going to jump straight into the first piece of the MCML puzzle Read More... Posted 05 March 2007 10:07 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center

• Creating a new MCML Project

  We create our Visual Studio project by going to the File menu, under 'New | Project'. In the Project Wizard that appears (assuming you have installed Visual Studio and the Media Center SDK in the correct order) you will find a project type called 'Windows Read More... Posted 05 March 2007 09:36 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 0 Comments