The Media Center Sandbox

Thanks for all the feedback.  I probably should have said that I have some experience writting a plugin for Media Center and know about the controls limitation using MCML.  I am QUITE familar with <UI>  and how much fun that can be. My previous Media Center Plugin ran as an appliction on the Programs Group and was pretty much ...

My main concern wasn't that I needed to do this in Media Center but that I need a menuing system that lays over full screen video that looks like the type of menus from a DVR or Flatscreen TV.  They are usually transparent multi-color menus with on/off values and variable sliders.   I just thought that the native MCML UI would be ...

What do you mean by WPF?  Is this short for Windows Programable Forms?  Do you mean just writing a desktop application using standard forms or is this some specific language?   Jeff

I have been asked to come up with a Demo for some audio technology.   The customer wants to see a video playing on a TV Screen with a transparent menu that displays over the video and has some sliders and buttons to control the audio experience.   Very similar to actual TV menus these days.  The demo needs to be run on

Yes there is a 64 bit version of the DLL.  And if I change the code to acces it instead it does work.  Here's my problem: I don't want to have to install 2 different assemblies based on 32/64 bit if I can help it.  What are my options?   Jeff  

I am getting a Unable to load DLL exception when running  my Media Center App in 64bit Vista.  I do not get this error when running on 32-bit. The DLL is a 32bit DLL that is called like any VB API call Declare Function myAPICall  Lib ''My32bitDLL.DLL'' () As Integer If I write a windows forms app and make this call under x64 ...

What is the maximum amount of text that can fit into MediaCenterEnvironment.Dialog? I notice that if I use text that has CRLF in it that when formated there is a blank line added?  How do I format the text to have specific line breaks without a separate blank line added?  Rich Text Format does not work. Are there any options to change ...

How do I do that?  I add the reference as COM using wmp.dll.  It creates the reference name and it is greyed out so I can't rename it?    

With no navigation policy in place the movement between the controls seems very random.  Even though the controls are laid out in the MCML in what looks like sequencial order the movement from left to right and up and down doesn't make any sense. The samples give a basic idea on how the navigation tags work but doesn't help with which to use ...

I did try to use RememberFocus but it didn't make any difference on the navigation.   Not sure what you mean by using it ''in combination with my Group navigation policy''?