I've used Windows Media Center and I'm very impressed by its UI. I wonder how to write such a program like that, I mean "full screen", effects... I think it is written in DirectX or something. I want to know this just for my curiosity.
View 2 Repliesi have media center's "put media center always on top UNchecked, but it doesn't seem to affect how the program works if it's maximized. I have a custom media control interface with functions that change depending on an event such as holding the button in. To show the user what it's SUPPOSED to be doing, i've tried a few different ways to get a notification to show over the top of media center's screen.
1. Had media center's display notifications turned on and showed a balloontip in the task bar... NO EFFECT
2. Found a MCE Plugin i can shell to, but am unable to actually find a download site in english for it
3. Wrote a simple vb.net program to give a popup form to show text but it appears behind the mce window always, even when i have the form's "always on top" checked, and i even tried the setwindowpos api call, although i might not have used it correctly since i manually converted it from vb6.
My final attempt will be to send the keycommand to "restore" the media center window which will open up some screen real estate on the bottom and right, exposing part of my program's window that i can show text on.
I have made a really simple program launcher for my home theater pc that allows me to launch 6 programs, open/close the optical drive and shutdown.I don't have a mouse or a keyboard normally hooked up. I can navigate the buttons with the up and down arrows fine, but only in the tab index order. Is there a way to allow the left/right arrows to focus on the buttons to the side? Here is a screen shot of my application to hopefully give a better idea of what I'm asking. (eg. Can I hit the right arrow from my first button and focus on the Open button?)
View 4 RepliesHow to write a pseudocode for vb.net 2008 programs/algorithms? is there any defined way?
View 2 RepliesCan I use VS2008 to create a windows media center add on? If so how would i do so.
View 5 RepliesI cannot believe after all the hype of .net framework and using any language that MS and the VB.NET team keep ignoring Media Center add ons for us VB.Windows 7 is now out, put something together for this and let the add ons start flowing from the VB world...A template and an example app.It is high time MS and the VB team aid us in getting into the MCE world.
View 1 RepliesI am looking to buy Xbox 360â„¢ Universal Media Remote or Harmony® Advanced Universal Remote for Xbox 360® to use on my application. Is it possible to use them from vb or csharp?
If it's possible where should i be looking for some infomation?
We are working on a media center plugin to show internet tv from a local provider. They are distributing their metadata as this link[URL]..It seems to be an xml list of rss feeds, because if I open the links in internet explorer, I get a nice html page.
My task in this project, is to write an aggregator that read the xml feeds, convert this into collections of metadata objects, that will be used to build the menu in media center. These will be simple List of... objects with categories, synopsis etc.
What is the best way in .NET to make this happen. It isn't even pure xml but rss feeds and I have never worked wit this. Can I benefit from technologies like xsd schemas, LINQ etc to make my job easier?
I have a desktop computer with a cable connection on the back that allows me to watch TV on the computer using Windows Media Center. I had the idea of writing a program that would access this feed and send it to another computer (laptop) via my network. That way I would be able to watch TV from anywhere that my network spans. I have no idea if this is possible or how I would even do it,
So I have three questions.
1: Is it possible?
2: How would I go about access the feed?
3: How would I send it over the network?
My original thought was doing it in Flash, but I'm not very good at Flash so I wanted to do it in VB.Net.
can you simoltaniously run a vb.net application (a windows form) and write a different vb.net program whilst the first application is running ?
View 2 Repliescan i write programs in vb on xcode?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to make a vb.net application that has got 2 textboxes, 7 radio buttons and 2 buttons(one named compile and the other 'run'). How can I load the content of a C/C++(or any programming language) file into the 1st textbox and on clicking the compile button, i should be able to show the errors or the C/C++ program in the 2nd textbox. On clicking Run, I should be able to show the output in the 2nd textbox. In short, I want to use the 2nd textbox as a terminal/console. The radio buttons are 4 selecting the language C or C++ or python or C# or java or perl or vb.Are the compilers of all these languages present in .net? If so how can I call them?
View 2 RepliesI am trying to write a login/logout program for a local Senior Citizen Center. It has been awhile since I wrote any programs so I downloaded Visual Basic Express and started to surf the net looking for help. I found a tutorial showing how to set up a "contact table". This seemed to be pretty close to what I wanted to do so I started following the steps. When I reached a point where I needed to add a "Service Based Database" I got an error message saying "server not found...". What server? Is this something else I need? The tutorial seemed so simple and straightforward compared to many others. There were so many references to "Visual Studio, Visual basic.net , Access, etc.
View 6 RepliesHow do you write config files for vb programs? Like .xml files, Seen some examples but didn't fully grasp them. Say I had a program that launched programs and I wanted it to save the:Program Name, Program Location, Program Site, etc..So I am guessing the xml would looking something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Configuration>
<Path>
[code]....
how to load the settings from these configs. The reason I want to write it to an external config is because I plan to add an updating feature and I want the configs outside of the program.
I'm trying to make a vb.net application that has got 2 textboxes, 2 radio buttons and 2 buttons(one named compile and the other 'run'). How can I load the content of a C/C++ file into the 1st textbox and on clicking the compile button, i should be able to show the errors or the C/C++ program in the 2nd textbox. On clicking Run, I should be able to show the output in the 2nd textbox. In short, I want to use the 2nd textbox as a terminal/console. The radio buttons are 4 selecting the language C or C++.
View 3 Replieshow to write/program VB programs. However, I'm stuck on the mortgage calculator application. Whenever I run the program, I come up with an error stating "Argument 'NPer' is not a valid value." which refers to the Pmt function in the code.
'Dim monthly As Double ' monthly payment rates
Dim years As Double 'total # of years
Dim rate As Decimal 'annual rate
Dim months As Integer
[code]....
I'm trying to make a vb.net application that has got 2 textboxes, 7 radio buttons and 2 buttons(one named compile and the other 'run'). How can I load the content of a C/C++(or any programming language) file into the 1st textbox and on clicking the compile button, i should be able to show the errors or the C/C++ program in the 2nd textbox. On clicking Run, I should be able to show the output in the 2nd textbox. In short, I want to use the 2nd textbox as a terminal/console. The radio buttons are 4 selecting the language C or C++ or python or C# or java or perl or vb.R d compilers of all these languages present in .net?
View 2 RepliesWhen I call this Messagebox, is it possible to center the Messagebox on the parent form rather than centering it on the center of the screen?
View 2 Repliesi found this video today and its a simple vb game but made me wonder how they kept the charater centered during movement.url...Anyone have a simple snippet to demostrate how they made a larger resulution then vewable and kept the picturebox centered and only moved the viewable area?
View 2 RepliesI am sure this can be done, as Visual Studio is basically built this way. What I want to do is simply make a class that my other workmates can use. But rather than have it in a code form, I want to build it (partially), and then my workmate can add it into their programs (sort of, like the add reference for the .NET stuff).
View 4 RepliesI am attempting to consume my Zenfolio RSS feed so that i can display the images in the feed. How can i access the url value of the media:thumbnail and media:content elements in my RSS feed? I have googled high and low and not found an answer regarding how to access the url value. There was a similiar unanswered SO post.
Examples of the elements:
<media:thumbnail url="http://riderdesign.net/img/s11/v35/p449020235-2.jpg"
width="400"
[code]....
im working on a little app for my self, to make my life a little more convenient. I have some media keys on my laptop, and I would like to use them with itunes while it is minimized. I found a app that did it for me a long time ago, but cant seem to find it now. But I would like to try my hand at my own, and I've managed to do so, but, my app has to be in focus for it to work. is there any way to still detect when these media keys are pressed while my app is out of focus?
View 9 RepliesHow do I get the Center (x,y) of the form?
View 3 RepliesI'm adding the icon image of a process and adding it to a PictureBox. I want the image to be centered, but it's stuck in the Top Corner of the box.
VB.NET
Dim ico As Icon = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(p.MainModule.FileName)
Properties.picProcess.BackgroundImageLayout = ImageLayout.Center
Properties.picProcess.Image = ico.ToBitmap
I'm setting the Layout first and then adding the icon. I've tried the reverse and I still get nothing.
I have a program which moves a label inside the panel in a four direction(up,down,right,left) when i click the relevant button.For this i have used the following code.Its working well. But the thing i want is the label should be placed in the center(0,0) of the panel when the form loads.
vb
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
[Code].....
i have a panel docked at the top of my form with a button and a textbox. Also have a webbrowser docked below the panel filling the rest of the form.when i run the form and maximize it, the panel and webbrowser resizes correctly as they are docked but the button and textbox stays where it is, how would i make the button and textbox always stay center screen so if i maximize it will be center.
View 2 RepliesIs there any way I can move a form in the center of the screen ? I am talking about run time for a form that is already shown . I need this because some times this form may become larger or smaller during run time and I'd like it to be moved in the center of the screen in order to look better . Back in VB6 I used to show again the form (despite being already shown) by MyForm.Show , which resulted i the form being moved to the center , but now it seems this doesn't work anymore ...
View 7 RepliesHow can i have my app start in a certain position on "any" screen. I want to start my application at the top and center of any screen that its open on.
View 8 RepliesI am messing around with the WMPLib component provided by Windows Media Player 12 (wmp.dll) in VB.NET with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
I am trying to retrieve a media item from my media library based on its name (assuming there are no duplicate names). At the moment, I'm grabbing the entire media library, and looping through every media item, and quitting the loop when I've found the correct media item. This works well (except for when a media item with that name cannot be found), but I was hoping there was a more efficient way of doing this.
Here is my code so far:
Public Class WMPTest
Private myWMP As WMPLib.IWMPCore
Private myMediaCollection As WMPLib.IWMPMediaCollection
[Code]......
So what I really want is a way to optimize findTrack() to do its thing without looping through the entire media library (which could be huge).
I have created a media player (vb.net 2005) using the media player control. Plays fine when using open dialog box and url. I have set my player as the default player but when I click on a media file, the player will open but not play. I am sure it has to do with on open event and coding the url to see the selected file just like any other media player out there.
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