Screencast: Creating a simple Media Center Application

July 12th, 2008

I’ve had some demand for the source for my simple application that plays BBC Radio inside Media Center.

I thought it might be more valuable if I put together a screencast introducing how I created the application from scratch, although the source is below too.

I assume your are familiar with .NET and C#, and have perhaps browsed through the Media Center documentation a little.  If you are an experienced Media Center developer then move along, move along, there is nothing here to see.

The first screencast walks through the simple application that gets created for you when you create a new Media Center Application.  I show how it works, and how you can build, install, and run it.  It is available to be streamed or downloaded here: http://www.atadore.com/videos/MCBeeb.wmv

The second screencast starts when the first one leaves off, and shows how I modified the initially created application to play BBC Radio.  It is here: http://www.atadore.com/videos/MCBeeb2.wmv

The final project is here.  It isn’t quite the same as the BeebMC application (it doesn’t load the channels from an XML file, and has no error checking), but feel free to play around with it.

I recorded them in one go quite late on a Saturday night, and I stumbled a couple of times with the terminology - please forgive the occasional mistake.

Hope this is useful! Do let me know.

Posted by dmehers Filed in Media Center

8 Responses to “Screencast: Creating a simple Media Center Application”

  1. Charlie Owen Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    These are GREAT Damian — thanks for creating. I posted a note to our developer blog: http://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/ScreencastCreatingASimpleMediaCenterApplication.aspx

  2. dmehers Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    Thanks Charlie.

    /Damian

  3. Ian Dixon's Blog : Damian Meher: Screencast on creating a simple Media Center application Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    [...] Screencast: Creating a simple Media Center Application Published 15 July 2008 09:41 by Ian Dixon Filed under: Windows Media Center, development [...]

  4. chris Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    hi i get this when i click on the link for your screencasts

    Application Firewall Alert

    Your request triggered an alert! If you feel that you have received this page in error, please contact the administrator of this web site.

    To immediately resolve this problem. You can login to your hosting control panel->security->Security guard and set the security guard to Medium Level for your domain name.

  5. disco Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 4:10 am

    Links are broken

  6. dmehers Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Thanks for letting my know - the hosting company changed their settings. Should be working now.

    /Damian

  7. Tom Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 2:13 am

    Hi,

    I am interested in viewing your screencast but the links dont seem to work.

    thanks

  8. dmehers Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Hi Tom,

    What error are you getting? Have you tried downloading them and then watching them from your hard disk?

    Cheers,
    /Damian

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