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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 8:48 PM

Possible issue with Media Center hosted HTML applications on 64-bit Windows Vista

A possible problem currently exists for hosted HTML applications in Windows Media Center for Windows Vista on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista. Windows Media Center hosts applications in a 64-bit process, and that 64-bit process currently only has the
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:44 PM

Final version of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 has been released

The final version of Visual Studio 2005 service pack 1 has been made available for download. You can check out the following links for more information about this new release: MSDN page for Visual Studio 2005 SP1 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx
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Friday, December 15, 2006 11:40 AM

Bug in Votive can prevent culture settings from taking effect when building an MSI

Recently, I posted a set of instructions for creating an MSI-based installer for a Windows Media Center application using WiX v3.0 and Votive . While I was working on writing those instructions, I noticed a frustrating issue that I could not consistently
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:19 PM

Some useful things I have learned about Windows Installer and UAC

Recently, I was helping a customer investigate an issue in an MSI-based installer that they created for their Windows Media Center application for Windows Vista. They included a custom action in their MSI that executed RegisterMceApp.exe /allusers to
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:59 PM

Sneak preview of a new Media Center application - Big Screen TV Series

Niall Ginsbourg from Mobilewares is working on another Windows Media Center application for Windows Vista using Media Center Markup Language (MCML) - Big Screen TV Series. The Big Screen TV Series application monitors your recorded TV shows and scheduled
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:07 PM

Converting the Q sample application setup to use WiX v3.0 and Votive

I previously posted an example of how to use WiX to build an MSI-based installer for a Windows Media Center application. In that example, I created an installer for the Q podcast and video blog client sample application that is included in the Windows
Posted by astebner | 11 Comments
Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:59 PM

Windows Media Center SDK documentation for Windows Vista now available on MSDN

I just noticed today that the documentation included in the help file that ships in the Windows Media Center SDK for Windows Vista has been published on MSDN. This makes it easier to access the documentation by performing web searches on a system that
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Friday, December 08, 2006 9:54 AM

New MSDN Forums for Windows XP Embedded

A new set of MSDN Forums have been created to discuss Windows XP Embedded issues. If you have any questions about XP Embedded development or deployment scenarios, I encourage you to check out these links: Windows XP Embedded forum home - http://forums.microsoft.com/embeddedwindows/default.aspx?siteid=47
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:35 PM

Application compatibility white paper for Media Center HTML applications on Windows Vista

A white paper has recently been published that outlines development, design and deployment guidelines for hosted HTML applications for Windows Media Center in Windows Vista. Included in this documentation is a specific set of factors that developers must
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:14 PM

How to resolve ehExtHost crashes that can occur when launching Media Center

I have heard from a few customers in recent weeks who received an error dialog every time they launched Windows Media Center. This dialog had the following title and text: Title: ehExtHost - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services Text: Application
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:26 PM

Mailbag: How to install the .NET Framework but not configure ASP.NET

Question: I have a production server that is running Windows Server 2003. This OS comes with the .NET Framework 1.1 pre-installed, and it is being used as an ASP.NET web server. I want to install the .NET Framework 2.0 to enable some additional applications,
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:17 AM

Mailbag: What issues can I expect to see when using Visual Studio on Windows Vista?

Question: I have seen some of your previous blog posts (such as this and this ) regarding compatibility issues when installing and using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista. Is there a complete list of known issues that I can review to see what other
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Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:44 PM

Media Center Presentation Layer Web Applications in action - Mobilewares Online Showcase

Niall Ginsbourg of Mobilewares has posted an interesting entry on the Big Screen Blog that I wanted to bring to your attention if you haven't seen it yet. He has created a couple of new features for the Big Screen family of Windows Media Center applications
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Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:35 PM

UAC prompt from unidentified publisher appears when uninstalling MSIs on Windows Vista

We ran into an issue while testing the final build before we released the Windows Media Center SDK for Windows Vista that I wanted to describe here because it affects all MSI-based setups on Windows Vista . In preparation for shipping, we digitally signed
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Friday, December 01, 2006 6:47 PM

How to determine whether or not a VS 2002 or VS 2003 product is installed on a computer

A while back, I wrote this blog post that listed registry values that could be used to detect the presence of each individual edition of Visual Studio 2005. Recently, I was asked for a similar list of registry values for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003,
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