I 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 RepliesCan I use VS2008 to create a windows media center add on? If so how would i do so.
View 5 RepliesI 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.
i 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 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?
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 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 RepliesWe 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?
How can I change the background of my form to look like that of Windows Mobility Center in Windows Vista?
View 2 Repliesmake media player in vb6 or vb2010.. not using windows media player..
View 1 RepliesI have embedded the WMP control in my Visual Studio 2010 app which works on windows 7 (Framework 4.0), but installing the app on winXP, I get the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.WMPLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Interop.WMPLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'
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WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftFusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftFusion!EnableLog].
I guess this is a reference issue, but I have added references to WMP libraries (axinterop.wmplib.dll and interop.wmplib.dll). The WMP works on the XP machine, but not when called from my application.I have searched the web now for 5 days and changed references, and reinstalled the media player on the XP machine, but nothing works.
I've successfully saved video files into SQL server as varbinary. Now, my problem is, how can I play those videos in Windows Media Player (embedded in my Windows Forms).
View 1 RepliesI would like to have windows CE devices available and am unable to see how to select that option.
Under tools > options > device tools - Windows CE device is listed.
I'm new to this and unsure how to do this. I created a project, but it's not right for windows ce and does not deploy.
Do I need a windows ce template or how can it be selected under new project?
I want to Align my form to center of my screen ,i have set ( form properties "Start Position = CENTER SCREEN ") .But its not Aligning to center . Every time the window is moving right wards when it opens.
View 5 RepliesI downloaded Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition last night (the total download took about 3 hurs, but I digress). I started duing the little "Learn Visual Basic" tutorials. I've gotten to "Communicating with Your Program's User: The User Interface" and it asks me to open up a new project. Alright, fine, nothing I haven't done yet. But the problem is that it wants me to open the new project up in Windows Form Application.
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I'm trying to create a Windows Service. When I look up tutorials they all say to Choose File--New Project Windows Service Template.I don't have a Windows Service Template (see attached jpg).I looked at Microsoft's VS 2008 Comparion chart PDF document and it says that VS 2008 STD has this template.
View 2 RepliesI have a project that will need several forms with a similar structure - a Data Grid View control, a few buttons and some textboxes. They are not similar enough to use just one form and change things programatically so I would like to create a "template" and add several copies of it into my project. My first attempts have failed miserably, ending up with lots of "conflicts" and "duplicate items".
So, how should I save a form from my existing project in such a way that I can then load in multiple copies (giving them suitably different names) without having name conflicts?
When 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 want to create a Windows Service using VB.Net, but in VS2008 Standard, you don't seem to get the "Windows Service" template I've used before.
What's the best way of creating such a service, without resorting to using the C++ template?
In VB.NET,I want to create template at runtime and save it the template with name. for ex : Administrator design a page with 5 fields like using firstname, lastname, dob,nationality and job. He want to assign this page to the user with some restriction like user1 need to enter the all the fields and save it the forms as user1profile, but user2 need to enter only firstname and lastname and save it as user2profile.(in features, he can remove the fields from the form).
View 1 Repliesi have windows app to run media filethe problem i fix the file path ex:cxyzdesktopxyz.wavwhen i try to run the application from other machine give me message error file not found because of the file path is change to
View 6 RepliesI'm getting this Error
System.InvalidCastException was unhandled Message="Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'WMEncoderLib.IWMEncDeviceControlPluginInfoManager'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{632B6087-BBC6-11D2-A329-006097C4E476}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))."
I'm just enumerating a collection of devices. The SDK is a bit different from the previous version. But my code seems to be fine.
Dim Encoder As WMEncoderLib.IWMEncoder
Dim Sources As WMEncoderLib.IWMEncDeviceControlPluginInfoManager
Dim Source As WMEncoderLib.IWMEncPluginInfo
Encoder = New WMEncoderLib.WMEncoder
Sources = Encoder.SourcePluginInfoManager (debug error occurs here.)
used the latest WMP (v11) with .NET? I've been writing a VB6 program using the v9-10 dll, and now I find out the machines I need to use it on are v11 (which doesn't appear to play nicely w/vb6).
View 1 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'm working on my first T4 code generation tool to add some Stored Procedure helper code to my project. I've created custom types (e.g. StoredProcedure and StoredProcedureParameter to help with my code generation and have included the assembly and namespace references in my code:
<#@ template debug="false" hostspecific="false" language="VB" #>
<#@ output extension=".generated.vb" #>
<#@ assembly name="$(TargetPath)" #>
<#@ import namespace="StoredProcCodeGenerator" #>
This allows me to use my custom types in my T4 template code. However, because my custom types exist in the same project as the T4 template code, I can't recompile my project once I run the template code without restarting Visual Studio. This isn't very much fun.
I read a great article that addresses this exact issue by using the T4 Toolbox, but it's not working. Either I'm implementing the VolatileAssembly directive wrong or the T4 toolbox simply didn't get installed. I'm not sure that the toolbox got installed correctly (I'm using VS 2010 on Win XP).
I'm having trouble working with VB.Net 2010, I'm trying to have a Windows Media Player video play, and once it ends I want it to go to a new task. But I cannot figure out how to get it to get to that new task in the event that the video ends.
View 1 RepliesWhat is involved in deploying a vb.net 2003 application with the Microsoft Media Player component? What files must be part of the build?
View 7 RepliesI have downloaded the windows 7 sdk but samples are in c++ Where can I find the windows media services9 sdk, I have read that there are vb.net samples?Where can I find vb.net samples, regarding to how to add publishingpoint on the server and fill them with files or playlist?How to make or add files to playlist etc?Are there samples in vb.net using SMIL?
View 5 RepliesMaximizing windows media player
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to run a video in a windows media control, like I had before, but for some reason it's not working. I'm not sure why either. As far as I can see I'm doing everything the same as I had for the first video..
first this code runs..
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