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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' Read More... Posted 10 December 2007 09:32 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 4 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 17 June 2007 17:51 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 1 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 20 May 2007 17:57 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 3 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 12 April 2007 23:51 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 07 March 2007 21:42 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 05 March 2007 10:07 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 3 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 28 February 2007 11:17 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted 26 February 2007 08:43 by IgnoranceIsBliss | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer, MCML, Media Center