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Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:31 pm
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Creating MSAS sinks in C# without using MediaState
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jachin99 » Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:29 pm
Microsoft’s Window Media Center has a mechanism to notify you of events inside Media Center, called the Media State Aggregation Service (MSAS).
The Media Center SDK includes a .NET assembly called MediaState, which you can use to hook up C# to MSAS, however it is possible to build C# classes that...
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:29 pm
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WMC TV Channel Status
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Kick4U » Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:21 pm
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Hello, I really don't know enough about programming as I wish and have been putting a lot of my free time on the weekends to try and understand and learn.
Before I get deep into my project I want to know if anyone sees it feasible and maybe knows of an application that already achieves this.
My...
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Seems this is completely possible and now I need a few free evenings to spend on figuring out how to accomplish this. I found a project called VMCController (Windows Media Center TCP/IP Controller) that provides this data, but the WayBack Machine doesn't have the downloads archived (shucks!).
I...
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Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:50 pm
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Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:59 pm
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Notes about 7MC SDK
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jachin99 » Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:47 pm
Retrieved From:
Windows Media Center Platform in the PDC Build of Windows 7
The Windows 7 release of the Windows Media Center platform focuses primarily on small, targeted improvements to the Windows Media Center Presentation Layer and additions to the managed code object model to make all...
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Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:47 pm
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MCEPopups.0.3
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nxsfan » Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:26 pm
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MCEPopups is a MCE background add in that opens up port 1982 and waits for specially formatted text strings.
As of version 0.3 it has the following capability:
Dialogs - Generate interactive dialogs and receive a response.
Query - Query whether it is playing content.
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I found the blog entry for _T_'s program where he explains how he made his program. Its on the web archive here
I have also hosted MCE Popups on my file share at this link
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Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:24 pm
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Prevent multiple insances of an addin at once
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jachin99 » Thu May 10, 2018 2:42 pm
Preventing multiple instances of a Windows Media Center application from running at the same time from:
By default, when a user clicks on an entry point in the Windows Media Center UI to launch a Windows Media Center application, a new instance of the Windows Media Center hosting process...
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Thu May 10, 2018 2:42 pm
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Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:31 pm
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Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:13 pm
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MSDN page about resource files
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jachin99 » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:57 am
I think this could be useful because the graphics in WMC are housed in reource files. You can view them by exporing the file with something like 7 zip.
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Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:57 am
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Hosting IE 9 web pages in media center
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:25 pm
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I found this on the web archive for mediacentersandbox
ehExtHost32.exe =dword:00002328
That's for Win64. For Win32, it should be (untested):
ehExtHost.exe =dword:00002328
More info at
(0x2328 is 9000 in decimal; the default value for apps using the embedded webcontrol is 7000 which...
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From the MSDN link found by searching the web archive.
Binary Behavior Security
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). The FEATURE_BEHAVIORS allows Binary Behaviors to run more securely. When the feature is enabled, it can be set differently for each security zone by...
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Sat Mar 10, 2018 5:12 pm
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MCML Preview tool
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:48 pm
Media Center Markup Language Preview Tool Launcher Powertoy
Several weeks ago a few of us were helping out some friends in MCML creation and realized the Media Center Markup Language Preview Tool wasn't exactly optimized for testing with web applications (i.e., any time you need to type http://...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:48 pm
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A peek under the hood part 2
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:45 pm
A Look at Media Center's Rendering Engine
In Part One, we examined the high-level architecture of the Windows Media Center Presentation Layer, including the relationship between its User Experience Framework and Rendering Engine. In this installment, we’ll take a more detailed look at the...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:45 pm
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A peek under the hood part 1
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:44 pm
The goal of this series is to provide some technical background for Media Center application authors who are interested in what the Windows Media Center Presentation Layer is and how it works.
This post takes an introductory look at the Windows Media Center Presentation Layer’s internal components...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:44 pm
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UI development with the MCML Pad
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:43 pm
Update: I'm adding a mini-FAQ at the bottom as the comments and feedback arrives.
As part of the documentation updates for the upcoming revision of our Windows Media Center Software Development Kit I have been writing some topics on how to effectively use the MCML Preview Tool (MCMLPad.exe) during...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:43 pm
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Debugging assemblies
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:42 pm
Debugging add-in assemblies in Windows Media Center
As many of you have probably noticed, it can be tricky to debug problems that occur while loading and running an add-in assembly hosted within Windows Media Center. Fortunately, there are 2 fixes in post-beta 2 builds of Windows Vista that make...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:42 pm
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Debugging MC apps in Vista and VS 2005
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:41 pm
How to debug a running Windows Media Center application in Windows Vista using Visual Studio 2005
I have been working on some debugging topics that will hopefully eventually be included in the Windows Media Center SDK for Windows Vista, and I wanted to put some of these topics together and create...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:41 pm
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Preventing multiple instances of an MC application
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:40 pm
Preventing multiple instances of a Windows Media Center application from running at the same time
By default, when a user clicks on an entry point in the Windows Media Center UI to launch a Windows Media Center application, a new instance of the Windows Media Center hosting process...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:40 pm
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Bluray extensibility in media center
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:39 pm
There are two main features:
1.The ability to launch a third party playback application when a HD DVD or BD disc is inserted into the drive and MCE is full screen. If MCE is not full screen then the regular 2’ Windows auto play is used.
2.The ability to launch a third party application if a HD...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:39 pm
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:37 pm
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ZSampleApp
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:35 pm
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...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:35 pm
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Create a loading page for MCML application
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:34 pm
Mailbag: How can I create a loading page for an MCML application?
Question:
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...
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:34 pm
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Setting up the MCML verifier
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jachin99 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:41 am
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.
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Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:41 am
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Notes about building the Q sample Application
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jachin99 » Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:50 pm
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...
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