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) picture sources. What many people don't know is that...
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 that people who are having trouble can get a walk...
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' while they are waiting for it. When this happens...
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 use it simply as a home-theatre experience, installing...
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 release of the Windows Media Center SDK (and in...