Introducing the Z Sample Application

For years we have had folks ask us for a complete end to end sample. Allow me to take a brief moment of your time and introduce you to our newest family member...

Z

Here are screenshots of what you get with this sample application which debuts with the...

Mailbag: How can I create a loading page for an MCML application?

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I am building a Windows Media Center application for Windows Vista using Media Center Markup Language (MCML). My application performs some initialization tasks that are somewhat time intensive, so I would like to display...

Copy Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.dll to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Media Center\v6.0\Tools” so McmlVerifier.exe can find the assembly. If the project uses resources from ehres.dll, copy it to the same location.

I like to tinker around quite a bit and I took it upon myself to make a project out of building the WMC sample apps in the stock form with no content just for learning experience. I've successfully built the Z sample app so far but I ran into trouble while building Q. Specifically the...

the value in this some of these tables will outright tell you why installers aren't working I.E. needs .net version 1, etc.

See here

I haven't been able to obtain an older version of MS Visual Studio but, I do have a full version MSVS 2015, on one machine, and the freeware version of 2017 on another. By default, these use the latest version of .net, and I have been able to change this to .net 2.0 in most cases however, I would...

Dear all :)

I'm the designer of a WMC skin for MediaPortal 2. The design and navigation are mostly oriented to the original WMC, but there are lot of new features existing.
- Additional Media Information
- Optional FanArt shown semitransparent in the background
- HomeMenu Editor: Configure the...

I started looking at the web archive, and I found the old green button forums. I don't know how many of the links work but click this, and start looking aournd

I have been looking for any information I can find on MCML, and I found this blog but the link to the lab is dead. Does anyone have this lab or something like it?

I need advice making a choice. I want to setup a machine for the purpose exploring application development for WMC. Given my budget and time constraints, I have to choose between setting up a Win 7 machine with MS VS 2010 in a VM on a new HP laptop running windows 10, or installing MS VS 2010 on my...

Working on my sports plugin, I want to work with a namespace that lets me retrieve a filtered list from WMC, or one that can give me a full list, and then lets me filter that list. The only thing i can find so far is the click to record api but from browsing around the msdn pages, it looks like...

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to capture the skip forward and backwards commands and then do something else with it?

I'd like to make the skip buttons actually jump forward/backwards a custom set of seconds depending on some logic. My original idea was to just catch the button presses in...

I'm a developer for Schedules Direct ( we are licensed by Gracenote (former guide data provider for WMC in North America before the Rovi cutover) to provide guide data to individuals, but not to companies.

Our one-year subscription fee is $25.

We have two service offerings: XML and JSON.

The...

Hi all,

I would like to learn where to start with modifying Windows Media Center - what scripting and modification methods are available?
The reason is I have a project idea I would like to do using Windows Media Center (7 or 8, though I have 7 installed right now)

1. Firstly, I would like to...

Does anybody know how to trap a windows remote control button press event while a video is playing in full screen?

I have two String variables that I am trying to compare with a Condition. When they are declared they have a value of . Both Strings are bound to Text elements so that I can see their value.
I compare them with this code:

Do Stuff

Do Stuff

The Strings are declared like this:...

Hi everyone,
I'm WMC user since it was first released in 2005 and even though a lot of products came to the media market since then, like smart TVs, I still believe WMC is the best one and for some time to come. This is also confirmed by the WMC still alive population.
Unfortunately the program is...

Hi!

I ahve been thinking about a problem I have, and found no good solution.

The problem is with scrollers, reset of index and animations. It is often that you want to programmatically reset index of a scroller, like when you change context in a pivot and want to reload a gallery with new data...

Hi!

I ahve a very strange issue. My app looks pretty much like the movie gallery in WMC, at the top I have a pivot that selects categories and below I have a scroller/repeater for the galleryitems.

My problem is when there is only 1 or 2 items in the gallery. I dont know how WMC handles repeaters...

Hi!

I have spent countless hours trying something that should be simple.

I have two commands Left and Right. I have hooked these up to a keyhandler on my UI. When invoked, I want them to move the scroller one step to the left/right, by using the scrollerdata commands. The problem is that nothing...