Comments on: Creating MSAS sinks in C# without using MediaState

By: Tom Rickards

Tom Rickards — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:14:51 +0000

Once this C# library has been created, how can it be referenced from a simple Windows Forms Application or Service? I seem to be having issues with configuration when referencing the library which houses the Sink and Session.

By: RussKingUK

RussKingUK — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:11:34 +0000

Hi Damian,

I too have found the WMPRemote code you are utilizing and while it appears to work great for remotely controlling Media Player, it does not appear to be responding to events fired from Windows 7 MCE. Is this something that has changed in Windows 7? I don’t have a vista box to test with anymore unfortunately.

By: mourtan

mourtan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:58:21 +0000

Hi dmehers !

I compile your dll and it’s ok but it’s impossible for me to use it…
How can I use your dll for exemple to get the mediastate status change and put the result to a textbox using a timer or when I click on a button ?

Thanks a lot for help!!

By: dmehers

dmehers — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:46:19 +0000

Hi Chad,

I’m not sure why that should happen … could you try opening it with Reflector or ILDASM and see if those work?

/Damian

By: Chad Michael

Chad Michael — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:08:00 +0000

When attempting to add a reference to the ehmsas.exe I get and error saying that it couldn’t be added and to make sure it’s a valid assembly or COM component. I’m running Vista 64bit developing in Visual Studio 2008. Thoughts?

By: Johno

Johno — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:52:02 +0000

Hey Damian … not sure if you are still interested in this as I know you have another solution happening but I thought I’d let you know that I finally got it all working … Needed to add the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service AlwaysUseFPD=1

Got MSAS state for MCe, extenders plus on deployed project.

thanks for all you help along the way …

By: Johno

Johno — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:22:20 +0000

Thanks Damian … I had only just come accross your post at Media Center Sandbox as another potential solution to the problem. Unfortunately I am not a C++ guy … only VB and C#. It looks like the IWMPRemoteMediaServices Interface is only available for C++. I will be looking forward though to checking it out when you post.

Thanks again Johno

By: dmehers

dmehers — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:31:50 +0000

Hi Johno,

I did hit this kind of problem, and ended up using a different mechanism to receive the events, using an embedded hidden media player, which reflects the events fired by the media player used by Media Center — take a look at this post:
http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com/forums/thread/6581.aspx

I’m hoping to put MceFM on Codeplex in the next couple of days, and it would include the source for embedding Media Player (although I found the basic code elsewhere on the web).

/Damian

By: Johno

Johno — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:09:57 +0000

Hi again Damian … did you ever manage to deploy your MSAS sink solution. I’ve got it working beautifully on my dev machine but when I deploy it I can only get events from the actual Media Center UI and not the extenders. Appreciate your perspective.

Johno

By: dmehers

dmehers — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:22:47 +0000

Thanks Johno – I was racking my brains but apart from running through the tags I couldn’t think of anything — I really appreciate you taking the time to post an update.

/Damian