BRP Hangs only when Run from MC

[rhubarb]

Im using my own home-grown scraper with BRP v3, and testing it at the moment.

If I run from the More Programs section in MC, Bladerunner hangs after reporting the last line "... let MCE do it's stuff".

The following problem appears in the application events:

Event Info: Unexpected error during load: System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32.
at System.Convert.ToUInt32(Int32 value)
at System.Int32.System.IConvertible.ToUInt32(IFormatP rovider provider)
at System.Convert.ToUInt32(Object value)
at Microsoft.Ehome.Epg.Loader.EPGLoaderService.Deseri alize(GuideDbReader dbReader, Object args)

Looks like something in my xml guide it didnt like.

The weird thing is that when I run BRP from the commandline, with the same xmltv file, I don't see any error in the event window and it doesnt hang.

So
1. Any idea why its different when I run it from within MCE (I can see the hanging console, btw, and it shows exactly the same output as the non-MCE verison)

2. Any idea what causes this specific problem in the guide uploader

[rhubarb]

Okay, my bad on the "where it hangs message".

It definitely hangs in MCE but not on the command line - but the last message is a little bit different.
Where it says "Let MCE do its stuff" on the command line, it says "triggering mce..." when running from within MCE.

Doesn't change anything about the error message nor my desire to know what causes it (found someone else on TGB got the same message back in 2005 from SmartGuide - but no answer to his post).

But it's clear no why the behaviour is different: BRP is trying to update the guide live when running in MCE.

In any case, the guide doesnt update when I run it from the command line either - just no error is reported.

Also after trying to update, now if I open and close the MC application I get an error on closing.

[rhubarb]

Update: solved that problem.

One of my channels in channelInfo.xml had an id of "-1".
Slipped through my guide generator which usually disables such channels (and generates the channels.xml file too)