Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Matt Ivers — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:27:50 GMT

An article of mine was recently published in MSDN's online blog Coding4Fun: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/05/14/2632164.aspx...

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» Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:59:02 GMT

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re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Neil Stoker — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:51:04 GMT

Hi Matt,

This is an excellent article - having the requisite bits of hardware, I can't wait to try it at home. One thing though: at the top of the article it indicates the software required is Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Edition, whereas I'm pretty sure that some of the things you do here require a full version of Visual Studio rather than just Express (I don't have Express installed at work, but I seem to remember there being limitations on making WM5 apps). Is that the case?

Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Ian Dixon's Blog — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:48:19 GMT

Via Windows Media Center Sandbox On Coding4Fun there is a article demonstrating how to use a Windows

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Terry — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:48:40 GMT

The Windows Mobile SDK in the link seems to require a full Visual Sutdio Installatino rather than just the Express Edition. I have C# Express installed and when attempting to install the WM5 SDK I get the following error: "Software Development Tools required to use this SDK for application development are not installed on this workststion. Before trying to run the setup wizard again, verify that the correct software is installed..."

Nice article, but if it requires tools that cannot run with the Express Editions of Visual Studio then the article probably does not belong here.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Steve Sharples — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:18:46 GMT

I think you should change the requirements for this article as the Windows Mobile SDK is not compatible with the Express Editions, only Standard and up. Also, the code in the download contains .vdproj project files which are also incompatible with the Express Editions. Cool idea, though!

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re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Confused — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:59:11 GMT

I was trying to compare this to the Coding4Fun article that was posted long ago about using a PDA as a remote control for Windows Media Player but it seems to have been removed from the Coding4Fun archive. Does anyone know what happened to it?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Eric — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:12:09 GMT

This sounds really great.

i havent given it a shot yet, however i could see myself running into some unforseen problems.

i guess there is no way to get this in a prepackaged version is there? thanks

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Ankit Jain — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:50:42 GMT

Hey.. even I've tried building addins and build a tool around Visual Studio 2005. It's a free text search in the history comment from Version control server.

- Ankit

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Ryan Tollefson — Thu, 31 May 2007 09:18:50 GMT

This won't work with Visual C# Express - it doesn't support the Windows Mobile SDK.

The Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK requires Visual Studio 2005 Standard, Professional, or Team Suite Edition.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Ryan Tollefson — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:24:46 GMT

This doesn't work with the Visual Studio Express Editions - they don't support the Windows Mobile SDK.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Aurel — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:59:27 GMT

I tried the sample from Matt Ivers, but I have a problem when I start the application to test with the MCMLPad. I have an error code:

resx://WMCHookServer/WMCHookServer.Resources/_Default : Failure acquiring MCML markup from 'resx://WMCHookServer/WMCHookServer.Resources/_Default'

Can you help me to find the solution? Thank you

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Aurelien — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:01:25 GMT

I downloaded the sample, but when I try it with the MCML Pad, there is an error code:

resx://WMCHookServer/WMCHookServer.Resources/_Default : Failure acquiring MCML markup from 'resx://WMCHookServer/WMCHookServer.Resources/_Default '

Can you help me? Thanks

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Todd — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:20:31 GMT

Can anyone confirm that the sample code compiles and installs correctly on Vista Media Center? I'm still a noob at getting things to work in the Media Center environment, but I think the Installer piece doesn't register the app in Media Center, and even when I do it manually, it throws file-not-found errors around the GAC components.

Just curious if it works out of the box for anyone else.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

doudou2554 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:07:26 GMT

Hello , I tried the source code and I have some problems. Do you can help me?

Thanks

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Oliver Rogers — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:32:51 GMT

It is a bit misleading in your prerequisites to suggest using Visual Studio Express Editions to create this solution as this version does not support the Mobile Device SDK.

You have to fork out for the full version of Visual Studio!!

Is there any work around for this?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Josh Chandler — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:43:13 GMT

Very exciting developments can't wait to see what addins you guys can develop for Windows Mobile 6

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re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Edward Prislac — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:37:50 GMT

Is there any way I could get the C# source code for this project? I am trying to achieve similar results using a tablet pc instead of windows mobile, but am having a hard time getting some of the example code to work (and specifically, there are some segments where C# code was supposed to be in the article, and instead, more VB.Net code was in it's place) Any help would be much appreciated!

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

dave denning — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:34:14 GMT

Does this work on MCE2005 or only Vista?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Satish K — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:28:31 GMT

The Installed app doesn't run on Vista Media Center but i could rebuild the source code with the following modifications to run on Vista.

Event handler initializations are missing from C# code. So i added the following lines in Launch().

_server.ClientConnected += new Server.ClientConnectedEventHandler(OnConnected);

_server.ClientDisconnected += new Server.ClientDisconnectedEventHandler(OnDisconnected);

_server.MessageReceived += new Server.MessageReceivedEventHandler(OnDataReceived);

I used following environment to build/run the Application.

Vista Home Premium.

Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.

Windows Media Center SDK

Source code from this article.

Dell Axim X51v (Windows Mobile 5.0)

The source code is well written and documented. Excellent Article.

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re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

pezi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:37:32 GMT

where can i find de source code? the link doesn't work

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:01:52 GMT

@pezi: Working on fixing it

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Leonardi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:01:44 GMT

Still couldn't get this to work with Vista MC. Tried Satish K suggested changes but it doesn't work for me. Any suggestion?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Josh — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:29:06 GMT

Is there any solution to getting this to work with Vista MCE in Vb.net?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Lobato — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:50:47 GMT

Where is the link to the source code download? Has it been removed? Will it be back? :)

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:21:31 GMT

@Lobato: I just tried the link for the source code and it worked.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Matt — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:14:51 GMT

@Coding4Fun: Just wondered why you have not commented on the use of Express Edition? I have Express Edition but not the real version and wondered if it is worth me trying to get this work.

I ask as this is AWESOME!! and I would really like to have this functionality.

If it is just for Standard, could you make the binaries available?

Thanks,

Matt

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:28:52 GMT

@Matt: Currently Express can't do Windows Mobile development.

Are you a student? That does open a few doors for you. hit the contact button at the top if you want to talk more about this.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

James — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:33:20 GMT

I think maybe a few changes are needed to work with VS 2008. I slogged through to where I can get the C# template "Windows Media Center Application - Background". I got the Installer project set up, and it "installs" without errors. But that's about as far as I get.

From what I can tell, if I install the template project without modification, it should pop up a dialog "The background application did something." when I launch Media Center, but nothing happens. Is there a place I can view what addins MC thinks are registered? Can I debug this somehow? It's a pretty basic hurdle to get over, but MC addin development is not that common of a discussion topic.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Trent — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:26:56 GMT

Hi...I'm new to programming...

but I recieve the error "resx://WMCHookServer/WMCHookServer.Resources/_Default : Failure acquiring MCML markup from 'resx://WMCHookServer/WMCHookServer.Resources/_Default "...It seems like the image failed to load(I think) but...can you help me?

PS: I'm only 13 yrs old

I have Vista Ultimate and a Pocket PC

with CE 5

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:03:05 GMT

@Trent are you using the download we provided at the top and you are getting that error?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Trent — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:41:10 GMT

Yes...and i also have VS 2005 full version..I'm not using the express edition... I'm currently using the VB version too... is there another version of the software that I should download?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Jay — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:56:19 GMT

I am getting could not load file or assembly 'WMCServer' when I try to load Media Center after install. Using Visual Studio 2005, MS Vista Home Premium.

WMCServer and WMCCommon are included in the solution as references. Looks like it is failing in the Launch method at the first _server call. I added the code to initialize the event handlers as stated above; however, no dice. I also used WiX to build the install.

Any suggestions?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Trent — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:46:43 GMT

is there anther file i should download besides the one on the top of the page?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:42:32 GMT

@Trent and @Jay did you install the Windows Media Center SDK?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A43EA0B7-B85F-4612-AA08-3BF128C5873E&displaylang=en

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Trent — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:17:32 GMT

Yes. I have the Media Center SDK

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:38:11 GMT

Pinging Matt on this.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Jan D — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:19:59 GMT

Interesting article, but after creating the project (for Media Center, not for Mobile) there are warnings about references for this imports:

Imports Microsoft.MediaCenter.Hosting

Imports Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI

I have the SDK installed, what am I doing wrong?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

J:M — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:38:58 GMT

Do you have Media Center on your dev computer? If no, copy the dll:s from the ehome dir on a Media Center computer.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Jay S — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:51:07 GMT

THIS IS AN AWSOME ARTICLE!! ive been looking for some instructions on how to control media center in this way. This is the first in depth article ive seen thanks!!

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

jay2008 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:45:41 GMT

The source code link does not work, can anyone help me find the c# source code for this?

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:31:20 GMT

@jay2008 looking into getting this resolved, thanks for telling me.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Miki — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:11:45 GMT

The source code link still doesn't work.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:13:41 GMT

@miki, I know, I'm attempting to get in contact with the author.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

tomdel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:35:32 GMT

What a shame the link is now dead.. yea if anyone has it please email me it!!!

deloford[at][hot]mail com

Thanks!

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:47:10 GMT

@tomdel working on getting tracking down the author, sadly this is an old article, processes have been put in place so this shouldn't happen to future articles.

re: Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

Coding4Fun — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:05:51 GMT

Source code located, article updated with new link, emailed the people that requested it when found.

Sorry about that guys, processes are put in place to prevent this with future articles and I should have some time to go through and catch these issues in older articles as well. There are just a LOT of posts ...