mcNetworkCopy v1.0 Now Available
I’m pleased to announce that the project page for my Media Center add-on, mcNetworkCopy, is now online. You can download the installer and full source code. Continue reading
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Developing with the Media Center SDK, Part 8
Shows how to use the Microsoft Cryptographic API to store network credentials securely. This example uses RSA to encrypt passwords to network shares, then serialise the credentials to XML. Continue reading
Developing with the Media Center SDK, Part 7
Foreword: There’s actually no Media Center-specific content in this post, but it’s the logical continuation of the series… Background Add-In – A Queue-Based Download Manager Last time, we talked about using a Media Center-hosted WCF service as the basic architecture for the networking browsing and file copying add-in. This time, we’re looking at how that… Continue reading
Developing with the Media Center SDK, Part 6
Using WCF for IPC in Media Center Add-Ons Last time, I gave an overview of the design of my network browsing/copying add-on for Media Center. In this instalment, we look at how to use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) as a means of interprocess communication (IPC) between the interactive and background portions of the add-on. Recall… Continue reading
Developing with the Media Center SDK, Part 5
In the last instalment, we looked at building a list control for Media Center. This introduced the ModelItem class, which is the basis for building the Model/View-Model in a Media Center application. With a reasonable amount of MCML now under my belt, I am shifting focus to the add-in itself. This article is designed to… Continue reading