The official Windows Media Center SDK for Windows 7 documentation is on the Microsoft site here.
Preserving a bit of history for the diaspora that created Windows Media Center (the 'eHome' team at Microsoft) and the fans that still use since the actual installer has gone missing from the original download link.
Learn more about the feature and history over on Wikipedia.
/bin/
- Compiled SDK executables which should run on Windows 7. As the original installer took care of the heavy lifting there is a little bit of work here to manually register some of the tools within Windows Media Center./docs/
- Currently working on porting the source (in a proprietary Word format) to Markdown. Originals are in /docs/source/
. Also included are a few blog posts from 'back in the day' which were relevant./samples/
- Lots and lots of samples -- mostly in Media Center Markup Language which is simply XML./tools/
- Source code for many of the things you find in the /bin/
folder. A few of them (most notably MCMLPad.exe
) don't have source code. These were built in the main product and the source isn't publicly available./addendum/
- The original readme for the files in this separate download from the SDK can be found here. Almost everything here is a duplicate of what can be found elsewhere, with minor tweaks mostly in paths.
Enjoy...!
The organization name Skijump is in reference to an all volunteer home theater PC (HTPC) enthusiast group of approximately 150 people which formed at Microsoft in 2002 to internally and externally evangelize this new feature of Windows.