Download Windows Media Center SDK Beta 2

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Our Windows Media Center team has announced that the Beta 2 version of Windows Media Center SDK has been released; you can get this Beta 2 SDK at connect.microsoft.com or on MSDN currently.

The Beta 2 SDK marks a huge jump in quality and usability for the Windows Media Center SDK thanks to the efforts of many people who worked very hard to make this happen.

A few highlights are:

  • More detailed MCML documentation for creating UI using the Media Center Markup Language
  • MCML Sampler – a great tool for learning MCML via live-code samples
  • MCML Pad – you can now preview MCML inside the MCE shell or outside the MCE shell
  • WPF (Avalon) documentation – get started using WPF XBAPs with Media Center using the MCE SDK and the WPF SDK
  • VS Templates – you can now use VS to write and build add-ins for MCML and WPF
  • Click-to-Record Tool – Generate C2R files with this tool  

Again, you can get the latest builds of the SDK on connect.microsoft.com for each release of Windows.

If you have any feedback or questions, feel free to use newsgroups on connect.microsoft.com or MSDN beta.