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Multithreading in MCML

There are times when the response from a click is going to take a little while - fetching information from a web page, downloading a file, queuing a video...some of these things take time, and the user doesn't like to have their Media Center 'lock up...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 9:32 AM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center, Multithreading
Stage 10 - Installing It

OK, now there are interesting problems when installing an application for Media Center, because there are two different ways of registering your application. To appear in Media Center, several entries need to be made to the Windows Registry. In the first...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2007 5:51 PM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center
Stage 9: Navigating to a New Page & Getting Trivia Data

Allright - are you like me, and you've had enough of playing with this scroller? It's time to hang that up and start working on something REAL. Our first step is to go to a new MCML page. This first page is handy, but it's now done it's job - the user...

Published Sun, May 05 2007 5:57 PM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center
Stage 3, Part 1: Let's make a Button

OK - we have a base to work with - an MCML file that describes a nice little layout for our application, and a C# file that is used to provide data to it. Now, how about we make this thing a little bit more interactive? In our game, we are going to need...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2007 11:51 PM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center, Buttons
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...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2007 9:42 PM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center
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...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2007 10:07 AM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center
Before we begin...

Before we start our first MCML program, you are going to need two components. First, your development environment. Throughout this blog, I will be talking about developing in Visual Studio 2005. You may also be able to perform exactly the same actions...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2007 11:17 AM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center
Model-View Separation

For beginners to MCML, the most difficult thing to get used can be the idea of model-view separation. Some developers may be very familiar with it – the basic concepts have been used for quite some time, particularly in the Document-View architecture...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2007 8:43 AM by IgnoranceIsBliss

Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center

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