The Media Center Show #63 - Niall Ginsbourg
The Media Center Show #63(MP3 - 14.1mb- 40mins 59secs)
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The Media Center Show with Orb Networks
This week on the show is Niall Ginsbourg talking about his Big Screen Photos application. A Flickr application for Windows Media Center, developed using the latest .net 3.0 technologies (with a great Vista Media Center style UI)
We will be talking about the application and how using XAML has made for a rich application UI.
You can download a beta from HERE
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See the variety of equipment and setups that Media Center users have posted,the pictures are on my site HERE and there is an RSS feed for the pictures
Send your questions and feedback to mailto:isdixon@gmail.com(feel free to send your questions in mp3)
or you can send your questions and comments in to the show Skype Line “MediaCenterShow”
Don’t forget your to check out Media Center Show Gear
The forums are at Iandixon.co.uk/forums
Show Times:
00:39 Coming up this week on the show
01:15 Dual Monitor fixes
03:47 TV Quality Issues - Microsoft DVD Decoder Checkup tool
05:48 Developing with PHP and Media Center - The Green Button, interviews with Casey Chesnut,Stephen Toub,Charlie Owen
07:25 mceAuction 2.0 wins an award
08:10 A Message from Onevoice
08:53 Welcome to Niall
09:13 Background on the application, viewing Flickr photos on Media Center
11:01 The development technologies, WPF .NET 3.0
12:34 XAML
15:00 What is Flickr
17:21 The UI
20:00 Features
21:50 Keyboard access
23:00 Supported platforms
24:00 Extenders
25:29 Picture Resolution
26:00 Why use WPF over Media Center Markup
29:37 Beta version is ready for download
30:19 Lite and Pro versions
31:33 Release dates
32:00 Media Center Sandbox
33:35 The PVR Project Update (See this interview)
36:55 Thanks ton Niall - Please send Niall your feedback
37:48 See you next week
Music by Ian Dixon (new CD coming soon!!)
