Add a search function to recorded TV section how would I do it cheers

I think I used this SDK back in the day but I'm now having problems adding it into Visual Studio. It might be because I haven't done any programming in 10+ years. Any help to get this working?

While the WMC community might not consider SoftSled to be the holy grail it once was, I am very stubborn and don't want to let the dream go so I thought I would share my progress. :)

The original SoftSled project was available on the CodePlex Archives and already had the majority of the tedious...

Hello! Does anybody have a good tutorial they can point me to on how to develop plugins/extensions for WMC?
I have Visual Studio, but not sure what to use to develop or what language. Thanks!

For a while now I've been creating a tool to synchronise recording resume positions across multiple WMC machines (I have 4 WMC machines all sharing TV across the network and wanted to be able to pause a programme in one room and then resume in another, much like extenders offer). For the life of...

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...

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...

This is a small part of a nine part series he did about building WMC applications but I think he does a good job of explaining some of the basics.

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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...

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.
Control - Play, Pause or...

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...

I'm putting this here for anyone interested in creating their own themes in WMC. The advantage of this method is that you can add resource files for each page in WMC such as Movies, Music, etc.

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.

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...

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://...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This sample would be classified in the 'fun' category of neat things you can do with MCML and animations. Enjoy...!

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?

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...

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...

Hi!

I am almost about to give up on this project... one snag after another. Now the MCML us is working rather nice with a little help from you guys here, BUT, and a big BUT is that there is something really wierd going on with the Hosted HTML parts I desperatly need to playback the video.

My app...

Hi!

I have an UI with a pivot control. It is a popup control so I show/hide it from the parent. The problem I have is that if I in the popup selected item 2 in the pivot, then close the popup and then open it again, I want the pivot to be reset to index 0. The pivot has a simple local choice as a...

Hi!

I am having an interesting problem.

My app is a rather standard gallery with a pivot for selecting category. When I select category 1, I set off an async load to get items for the gallery repeater. If I then, before the load is complete, browse to category 2 which takes very short time to...

Hi!

The wonders of MCML are still causing major headache.

I have a simple vertical repeater. The item template is a simple panel with two texts in a vertical flow like

panel
text1
test2
end panel

When the item is in focus I want both texts to be visible (hence the item will grow vertically,...

I'm using the PivotControl sample from MCML samples ( and noticed some weirdness.

The first time I navigate into a pivot, hit the up arrow key, it navigates to the second item instead of the first. If I try it again, it goes back to the right spot in the pivot heading. Also, if I add more than one...

Hi!

My app is progressing nicely, but I am stuck on a few small UI issues, hopefully someone knows:

1) Gallery, focus border
I have this code for the button in the gallery

It works great displaying a single picture, but whenever I want to add the other panel...

Hi all,

Ive developed a little desktop application and i would like some feedback from experienced media center users.

Currently the application only allows you to browse movie metadata but im working on the management of movies in relation of meta data and how this can be utilised with...

Hi!

I have been thinking about creating a WMC 7 app for a local tv service. They have a rather nice REST api with program infomation, and a way to play the shows using a javascript player (html page). I have been fiddling with MCML and media center apps before, but havnt't really produced anything...

I'm thinking about writing a multi-view application for Media Center to do something like picture-in-picture, or a 4-channel grid for watching multiple sporting events on the same screen. Has anyone attempted to use more than 1 video feed at a time? I don't see anything in the Media Center SDK...

I'm having awesome luck on here so I'll try another question. Thanks again for all of the help!

I'd like to hook up the Page Up and Page Down keys in a scroller with a repeater.

I have this markup in my scroll control UI, and not on the MCML page that's calling it (if that makes a difference)....

I have a dialog box with a few buttons. When I click on a button, I'd like to navigate to a MCML page. Unfortunately, it tells me I need to be on the application thread. Is it possible to get back to it?

I'm using a callback, which I think is not run on the application thread. I'm trying to...

I'm trying to figure out a way to have a checkbox next to a string in a repeater. Something similar to the Tasks -> Settings -> TV -> Guide -> Edit Channels page in Media Center.

I'm pulling in a list of strings from an ArrayDataList in C# into a repeater, which is working fine. Now I'd like to...

Anyone know how to make these work on Win 8? With the upgrade of .NET for Media Center in Win 8 these won't work. Their nice to have for checking MCML and viewing SDK docs?

Hi All,

A developer and fellow MCE Studio enthusiast is resurrecting MCE Studio and is asking for assistance. He made a post over on Seven Forums, but I just wanted to help him cross advertise here, as I know there are several MCE Studio fans.

As of January...

What he's done:

rewritten the...

I've been living with the fact that my ATI graphics adapter mutes the HDMI audio out whenever my AV receiver switches to a different input, or is turned off. I thought about programming my remote control to deal with this, or doing some Event Ghost thing. Then I thought: heck, I'm a software...

Hi, my name is Nate - I am a .Net programmer by trade and a HTPC Enthusiest (medio -> popcorn hour -> xbmc -> WMC 7). I recently added a ceton card and am loving it. I am not a fan of the Recorded TV section and am writing an add-in to replace it (Mostly i want an New flag and a Plex-style On...

So I have just completed my wpf recipe application v1 which is basically a db maintenance and recipe display and print application. I wanted to add a windows media center application so I can display the recipes on the tv in the kitchen. From what I have read it seems that mcml is nothing like xaml...

Are there any experienced media center app developers out there that might be interested in a project? I've got what I think is an excellent MCE app idea, and while I am a developer myself...I have ZERO experience in developing an MCE application.

If there's anyone out there interested in a joint...

THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES. BE SURE TO HAVE A WORKING BACKUP BEFORE TRYING THIS PROGRAM
Most if not all of the APIs used in this app are undocumented, and I am guessing at the usage by trial and error. There are probably many bugs.

InfiniTVToQAMMapper.1.1.zip

I have created...