How To: Building MediaPortal with Visual Studio 2003 .Net (1 Viewer)

[mzemina]

Thanks - I asked due to the size of the download of the SDK. I didn't want to download another if the one I already had was at the correct version level.

I appreciate your answer.

Mike

 

[CoolHammer]

Looks like this thread is a bit outdated, things have changed a bit after project moved to .NET 2 and VS 2005

CoolHammer

 

[rtv]

Would somebody be so nice and post an updated list?

 

[chowchin]

Error in building the source


Hi, I just downlaod the source code from SVN, and opened the solution in VS.net 2005

When I try to build the solution, it shows the error

Error 1 Newline in constant C:\Project\dotnet\MediaPortal\Core\guilib\GUIFilmstripControl.cs 779 134 Core

And I find the line, the error occur becuase of a un-closed '
action.m_key.KeyChar == '?)

and I find that it problem also exist in other source code that contain this character '?'

anyone encounter this problem ??? and how to soluton??/
or it is a setting issue??

 

[WeBoat]

Has this been updated at all? I'm about to dive into this. Is there a newer thread on building mediaportal? It seems that 8 months is a long time between messages.

 

[samuel337]

WeBoat:

Its not possible to compile MP using VS 2003 anymore, as it uses .NET 1.1. MP has moved on to .NET 2.0 and therefore VS 2005, and has made use of .NET 2.0 only features, like generics.

Try Visual C# express, which does work with .NET 2.0.

Sam

 

[rjburke377]

Note: I have been using Visual Studio 2008 express edition and have been making code changes to the configuration app and database.dll. Everything appears to be ok. The project conversion imports the Media Portal solution without any problems.

I have noticed that one of my try/catch blocks in Database.dll executes before the debugger fully attaches and some strangeness happens that I can't explain ... a catch block doesn't appear to execute correctly in a failure condition. Can't use the debugger to investigate.

Rick

 

[darsen]

Obtaining Source code

Hi,
Could someone please explain to a newbie how to get the source code. My immediate "task" is to build the MP so I can use nice VS2008 tools to gain understanding of how MP is constructed and how it works.

Thanks

 

[flokel]

This is described in the wiki:

MediaPortalDevelopment/MediaPortalSVN - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

 

[cwaidner]

Hi!

I'm also very interested in getting the up-to-date sources for the 1.x series of code. I got my files from the SVN but in the trunk only 0.9.4 is available. There is a tag for 1.0.0 RC3, but this one I don't want to change.

The link provided by flokel gives me an Internal Server Error 500, the documentation thread which is sticky in this forum is outdated (still VS 2003).

Can someone give me and all the other guys interested in active development a step by step guide or at least a working link for a documentation in how to get and build the current release?

Thanks,
Chris