Hi everyone, some of you already know me from around the community, I'm the silent one who sits and makes the occasional stealth post now and then over at the Green Button. My nick name is Lindz, so don't be surprised if I sign emails with it sometimes :) I am a Microsoft employee and technical enthusiast...
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...
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...
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 can now choose a category. But to ask a question...
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 to give people the option to choose between categories...