The Digital Home: Developing Services and Applications for Media Center

The Digital Home Developing Services and Applications for Media Center Charlie Owen Program Manager Microsoft Corporation [email_address] Peng Lee Director, Multimedia Platforms Schematic [email_address] BTB011

Powerful Windows Media Center ecosystem

Consumer

Designed from the ground up to enable highly usable digital media experiences

Up Down Left Right OK and Back The only thing needed to use your experience. All other buttons are shortcuts which help the end user do tasks easier or quicker.

Consumer

Designed from the ground up to enable highly usable digital media experiences

Content Owner

Full fidelity experience throughout the home with Media Center Extender for XBox 360

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/XMSatelliteRadioForWindowsMediaCenterPC.aspx “ Yikes, can't believe I missed this! I was literally sitting down this evening to WRITE this application (and probably base on most of Casey's MCPC stuff) then I figured I'd Google for it first. I loves my XM Radio, and I listen to it constantly. I particularly like that I can jump out of the car and log into http://www.xmradio.com and keep listening over a web stream. Now that Mo's home with the baby, I wanted her to be able to enjoy XM, so I figured I'd get a new Receiver with XM built-in to replace the old $99 Sony from 1996 we have. However, since this HTML-based app works with Media Center, it works over Xbox 360. Yes, folks, XM Satellite Radio over Xbox 360. Say what you want, but I'm impressed. My digital life is coming together and it's happening on my Xbox 360. I know that gushes, but the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for the Xbox purchase is now very high. She can happily listen to Ngoma (the African channel for XM that is only available online) at home!”

Consumer

Designed from the ground up to enable remote controlled, highly usable, digital media experiences. Up, Down, Left, Right and OK the only skill set a customer needs

Content Owner

Full fidelity experience throughout the home with Media Center Extender for Xbox 360

Designer / Developer

It is now much easier for you to deliver rich, immersive, next generation consumer experiences

Choices Pick what is best for you

There are three choices for Windows Media Center application development in Windows Vista

Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application

Create using MCML and .NET Framework 2.0

BTB029 The Digital Home: Designing for the Ten-Foot User Interface

WinFX XAML Browser Application

Create using XAML and .NET Framework 2.0

NGW030 Developing a Windows Presentation Foundation Application

NGW040 A Designer's Overview of Windows Presentation Foundation

Hosted HTML

Create using HTML and Jscript

NGW002 Building Components and Services for the Programmable Web

NGW016 Expression Web Designer Overview

Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application

Create using MCML and .NET Framework 2.0

BTB029 The Digital Home: Designing for the Ten-Foot User Interface

What we are presenting today is:

Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 ----- Managed Code ----- C# Language Windows Media Center Presentation Layer ----- XML ----- Media Center Markup Language (MCML) Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application ----- Compiled Assembly ----- Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Application [ User Experience ] View [ User Interface ] Model [ Logic and Data ] + = Application Types Technologies Concept Local Background Web Local Full UX

Enabling Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

“I need a download manager”

Using System.Net; static void Main(string[] args) { WebClient client = new WebClient(); Uri source = new Uri(args[0]); string destination = args[1]; client.DownloadFile(source, destination); } Download.exe “http://www.retrosight.com/audio/music.wma” "C:UsersJoeMusicmusic.wma"

Readable Media Center Markup Language