Develop a plugin on MCE 2005

[dalton5]

hello,

I have windows MCE 2005 and VS 2003.

I would like to develop a plug in in c#. I downloaded the SDK.

How can I create a user interface? I would like to design buttons, listview
etc ...

Can I use winforms thanks to VS2003 design view?


I already developed my application in C# as windows application. I would
like to integrate it in Windows MCE.

Thank you very much for your help.

[davidgol]

Sorry dalton5 you're out of luck.

Your options for MCE05 development are HTML/JavaScript for anything with a UI or C# for anything without a UI (runs in the background). The best you can do with with the C# as far as UIs are concerned are to add menu options to some of the popup menus.

VistaMCE on the other hand is a whole different story (and a complicated one!).

[ozbear]

Originally Posted by davidgol

Sorry dalton5 you're out of luck.

Your options for MCE05 development are HTML/JavaScript for anything with a UI or C# for anything without a UI (runs in the background). The best you can do with with the C# as far as UIs are concerned are to add menu options to some of the popup menus.

Not exactly accurate...a little explaining needed here...

For MCE2005 you do the hosted HTML/JavaScript fandango, (true, and UGH!) but if you have this connected to a ASPX form you can do quite a but. You C# code runs in the form and you can use the visual design aspects of ASPX pages to design most of the user interface. You have to use javascript to perform the interaction and form submittals to you web server where the background C# code runs.

It is ugly, messy, and error prone. I hate/d it when doing development.

At least under Vista MCE and VS2005 I have a new Presentation Layer API set to work with (same one used to make VMCE itself) and a much richer interface with MCML+C# and .net 2.0.

Oz

[dalton5]

Firstly, Thank you very much for your help

So if I understood I need a hosted html and javascript.

Can I use PHP?

Can I use webforms of ASP?

But I would like the same buttons as mce.

The best will be to have an example of a windows MCE with an hosted html application.

I looked for a lot of tutorials on internet and help but not a lot of concreet informations.

Thank you

[ozbear]

Dalton,

I think the best place for you to start is here.

Do the tutorials, resist the temptation to jump in and bite off more than you can chew.

Oz

[dalton5]

Originally Posted by ozbear

Dalton,

I think the best place for you to start is here.

Do the tutorials, resist the temptation to jump in and bite off more than you can chew.

Oz

Thank you for your help. I already downloaded the sdk. And I read the tutorial.On media center addin and hosted html application.

It's quite difficult and really bad to read. lol

I saw their examples in the file. It's quite better.

But I would like to find an application with the source code for an hosted html plugin.

Thanks.

PS: Sorry for my english. I'm french.