Comments on: Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK

By: GeekTieGuy

GeekTieGuy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:04:36 +0000

I highly doubt that. Media Center provides one of the things that Vista has and Mac OS doesn’t: TV recording / time shifting. That’s too big a thing to give up.

By: GeekNoMore

GeekNoMore — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:06:33 +0000

If I could guess. I think MCE itself might go away…

By: GeekTieGuy

GeekTieGuy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:24:40 +0000

That would be a good question to ask someone like Charlie Owen on the Media Center Team, I think. http://blog.retrosight.com/

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:31:59 +0000

What ..? XBAP will not be run in MCE..? Then why at start Microsoft allowed to do for MCE.?

By: GeekTieGuy

GeekTieGuy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:46:00 +0000

I can only give you my personal guess. Since WPF in .NET 3.5 is more or less a collection of new Class Libraries for the 2.0 SP1 CLR, like WPF in .NET 3.0 was, WPF apps for Media Center won’t be possible for future versions of Media Center. But I don’t work for Microsoft, so it really is nothing more than a guess. A half-educated guess, but still a guess.

By: Jason Irwin

Jason Irwin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:55:55 +0000

It specifically states .NET 3.0 XAML and XBAP applications. Is there any chance they are still suupporting .NET 3.5 apps?

By: GeekTieGuy

GeekTieGuy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:59:23 +0000

That’s what I thought too. Apparently it’s changed.

By: Fil Mackay

Fil Mackay — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:27:26 +0000

Seems a bit crazy / short-sighted, I thought WPF would replace MCML (or underly it).