The Media Center Sandbox

Hi, Good to hear you're doing something for the community! 8) Just some hints - the recursive bit is just something that's going on in your code - but the onscreen presentation/display is essentially a flat list (ArrayListDataSet) - as trying to do a Heirachical set of repeaters/lists might be pretty confusing to manage.The '+' button should ...

Hi, Ok I'm a little unclear what the actual question is there.. but a couple of suggestions are to - use the indentation on child nodes (ie. its not clear that the child2 is a child of parent node. If it was indented - then this would make this a lot clearer). - use the + / -  buttons as you see on the microsoft version. (you would have ...

Hi, A quick/easy solution for when you are developing is to compile your debug version to the c:\windows\ehome directory (assuming your Vista is installed to c: drive) - this way you can avoid needing to register it with the gac each time.  If you use this method - ensure you delete it prior to final/proper release (where you would then use a

Ok, Sorry guys - but my fault Charlie didn't reply here yet (if you were waiting for an answer). I was stirring the pot a bit in that last post - and thankfully he gave me a call - and we went over some stuff  (so no deep dark conspiracies to report - just the realities of shipping and being a large company ...

If you trigger that function via the MCML layer (via a default rule in a UI etc) - either directly or via a .NET class - then you know the page is loaded and being displayed. (and the call to the .NET layer if done that way - will be in the correct thread). Niall    

Hi Thanks Charlie ... and we won't hold you personally responsible if you give us some honest answers..(you'll be the first one that does).. The XBox360 was sold as an MCX v2 Extender a long time ago - and you guys got people to 'invest' into it (already) - for the connected home based on that... now it's falling behind the other v2 ...

Hi, A bunch of reasons why that wouldn't work : - you dont get a now playing window in RDP (which is required by the PlayMedia method) - you probably should'nt be tring to do that stuff from a background thread (which I think is what's happening in a deffered invoke)... - also not sure if you're stripping lines out (to give us ...

emigrating: Now, speaking about the PIKA units - because I'm doing video transcoding to extenders, is there a way to find out what capabilities the currently connected device has? It would be extremely useful to only re-code videofiles that the device cannot play natively rather than do everything that the lowest common denominator (Xbox360) ...

Hi, Well don't mean to sound skeptical - but hope this isn't just a 'we are listening' campaign - but 'we arent really doing anything' (as it's all locked down anyhow till Mediacenter 2020)... I think the current menu strips are 'pretty good' (a really nice navigation paradigm/visual experience)- except they try to make invalid assumptions on ...

Hi, A couple of notes from experiences getting apps running on Xbox360 + Pika 2 extenders - I don't think those margin settings work 100% - as the actual output method (ie. HDMI, Component, etc) + tv resolution/overscan (DLP RP, LCD, Plasma are all slightly different - and decoders/resolutions supported differ as well).  So always best