How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Windows Media Center 2005 SDK Available

Steve Makofsky's WebLog — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:41:00 GMT

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Roy J. Salisbury @ VsDevCentral — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:29:00 GMT

Here I have been waiting for the SDK so that I could write a real app for MCE, but at appears that the PlugIn's can only pop up dilaogs, and not an entire interface (i.e., RSS Reader). That sucks!

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:49:00 GMT

That's not quite true Roy, if you need a full UI, you can do that using HTML.

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Roy J. Salisbury @ VsDevCentral — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:14:00 GMT

Correct me if I am wrong, but are ANY of the screens in MCE written using HTML (besides the "Online Spotlight")? Event Microsoft knows that to get a nice looking UI, you can't do it in HTML (you need DirectX).

The "Online Spotlight" is a good example. That has got to be the worst looking "out of the box" UI that I have seen come from Microsoft (for MCE 2005).

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:59:00 GMT

I rather like the new version of Online Spotlight, but that's just. There are a few other HTML pages in Media Center, mainly things like the privacy policy.
It's possible to create great looking UI using HTML, have a look at some of the new apps on Online Spotlight, I think a lot of the partners have done a great job. We know people would like more options than HTML, but I can't say much more than that for now.

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Roy J. Salisbury @ VsDevCentral — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:00:00 GMT

Well, I will once again try to create an HTML based UI for MCE. Please contact me (roys@express-is.net) if MS needs input/testers for something that it may or may not be working on. I have numerous application ideas for MCE, but need a solid UI that can't really be done in HTML.

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Patrick Tsai — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:30:00 GMT

I am disappointed that MCE add-in can only use HTML-style UI. :-(

I've saw other HTML add-ins by some third-party companies and they look slow and bad when compared with DirectX-based UI.

Would you like an Media Center add-in sample in VB.NET?

Michael Creasy's blog — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:17:00 GMT

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Jeff Atwood — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 01:19:00 GMT

Yeah, the HTML options pretty much suck.

I built some WinForms controls that adopt the MCE look and feel, and that didn't work out well either (transparency is HARD in WinForms!) Sample project and screenshot available:

http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=30&MessageID=31768&TopicPage=3

Basically we need access to your DirectX-based UI elements.

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Niels Madsen — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:45:00 GMT

This is a bit embassing, but i can't get the hello world to work...
I use vs.net 2002, have signed the code, installed the dll in the gac and then registered it in MCE. And the "app" shows up - but does absolutly nothing. What am i missing?

Thanks!
Niels

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Sean McLeod — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:08:00 GMT

Talking about DirectX and the MCE interface, what happens with Media Center Extender Devices (MCX)? AFAIK DirectX is still not remoted by RDP, so what did MS do in terms of remoting the UI for MCXs?

Did they recode the whole MCE interface for MCX sessions and avoid using DirectX, just using plain GDI+?

Or did they find a way to remote DirectX via RDP? OpenGL is remoted via RDP, afaik in this case a software renderer is used and the bitmap bits produced by the software renderer are then intercepted by the RDP server and remoted. Not sure why MS don't use the same approach with DirectX and RDP.

Or maybe they did with MCX devices?

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Tim H. — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:06:00 GMT

Tried this and the app registers, but it will not launch the dialog.. I also tried using NavigateToPage, neither calls seem to work. Any thoughts?

Sample Media Center 2005 Add-in download

Michael Creasy's blog — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:32:00 GMT

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Michael Creasy's blog — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:35:00 GMT

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:36:00 GMT

To all that were having problems, I had an error in the addin parameter of the entrypoint tag in the registration file. I've fixed that and it should work, I've also just posted a copy of it for download.

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Jeff Fansler — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:05:00 GMT

I haven't really played with it much, but I downloaded your sample files and ran the install.bat. When I run the app from media center nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Michael Creasy [MSFT] — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:56:00 GMT

Jeff,
Hard to say really. My guess would be that gacutil.exe is not in your path when you run install.bat, try running it from a command line and you'll probably see that gacutil.exe isn't found.

re: How To Build An Add-In For Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Jeff Fansler — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:16:00 GMT

I suspect you were right Michael. I ran the install again using my visual studio command prompt since it has all the paths defined and everything works. Thanks!

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