The Media Center Sandbox

I read a lots of messages in this forum.

And also this message :

AndyC:

XBAP has been deprecated, so while you can use it now, there's a good chance that a future release will result in your app being broken.

HTML is still considered current - Media Center acts as a host for MSHTML so you can theoretically use Silverlight in an HTML based add-in.   Best thing is to try and see what happens.

Cheers,
Andrew

But I don't see one example HTML with silverlight 2 beta 2 in MCMLPad.

So, Can you say if vista ultimate MCE navigator is compatible with silverlight 2 beta 2 ? another version of silverlight ? (with an example maybe ?)

(sorry for my english)
Best regards.
Karima

With Media Center, sometimes the best thing to do to find out if something works, is to just try it.

Cheers,
Andrew

Try... ;)
Click OK - Video OK - Script ...  

I have a little problem. In Silverlight , I don't know translate this code from javascript to C#  :
var objMCE = window.external.MediaCenter();

I tried :

But it's wrong so,  Is it a little problem or a big ? 

Thanks.

The best solution for the moment :

http://silverlight.net/forums/p/23971/85878.aspx#85878

Is there a specific reason for wanting to develop in Silverlight rather than MCML?

Yes, the graphism of the addin is going to create by another company. If  I use MCML, I will do also the graphism. With Xaml, the graphist can use the Expressions' tools.

Also, I don't like to learn again another language (C#, java, xaml, php, css, html, c++,xml,rdf,sql,etc...).

But it's strange Microsoft said the XAML is the future on everything but not in Windows Media Center... Same LiveStation is with Silverlight and it's probably the future of Media Center or an future part of Media Center 4.0. What do you think about LiveStation and Media Center ?

Have a look through the forum and the SDK for detailed reasons why XAML isn't used internally for Media Center, but some examples: MCML predates XAML, the rendering engine for MCML is designed in a split fashion between the application and the renderer, which can be remote from the PC (e.g. an extender) which is different from XAML.

Cheers,
Andrew