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OK, although this isn't about GENERAL Media Center development and is more of a self-serving plug, I'm going to go ahead anyway and show you how to write a plugin for Yougle. I get a lot of requests for particular video, audio and (to a lesser extent) Read More...
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Although this really isn't really very difficult from what's been explained before, some people have trouble with getting their controls to interact - to change one control based on another. So I thought I'd spend a little time covering the basics, so Read More...
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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...
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A new website has come to my attention for Windows Media Center addins (and useful tools for a Media Center) - http://htpcresource.com/ This site may have existed for a while without me noticing, so this may not be big news for you. But it's got a growing Read More...
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I've started a new Open Source project, in the hope that other people are interested in contributing to it. Installing Media Center addins is a bit of an annoyance. You've got this really pretty Media Center interface, but for people who are trying to Read More...
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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...
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Steve Jobs recently announced something about the Apple TV that REALLY irritated me "This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch..." Ahem. Really. I'm not going to rant about Apple vs Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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OK - today we are going to look at the basics of developing for Media Center. There are basically three methods of writing software for Media Center. Hosted HTML Applications The first way is the only way that is backwards compatible with Windows XP's Read More...
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