Re: Vb.net or C#.net Tutorial Project
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 23:00:17 -0400
I thought that would be the case. I would have found it increfdulous if anyone
had bitten.
I would like to learn data binding and presentation in C Sharp. I have not
done this with an object oriented language. Looking forward to it!
Don Marang
From: RicksPlace
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:37 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Vb.net or C#.net Tutorial Project
Hi Don: This is going to be a raw beginners tutorial project. Getting into
remote anything is light years beyond the scope of this project. When done with
this project What you want to do might be fun but it sounds like it would
require some external devices which I might not have access to. Heck, I have
never even done anything with a mobile application. For me that sounds like fun
but later.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Marang
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Vb.net or C#.net Tutorial Project
How about the application I have been failing to find time for? I plan to
create a simple, accessible PC application to act as a media DLNA Remote
Control. DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance. It is a little
heard about standard that is in probably every networked device in your home!
In my home, I currently have the following devices that seem to work with DLNA;
All 3 Windows 7 computers, DirecTV R22 DVR, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and I
believe even my Epson network printer may be able to be told to print photos
through DLNA. I have not checked this out yet, but most smart mobile devices
such as Android phones, IPhones and the iPad should be able to perform most of
these functions, especially the Controller functions. What a cool remote that
would make! There are several flavors of DLNA devices, including a Server to
Host media, Renderer to display / play the media and a third class, a
Controller to direct traffic. There are also similar mobile device classes. I
am interested in the last class, since every controller is not accessible.
Most of the time it is just bundled in the same software as the rendering
engine and displayed on the TV screen. I also have reasonably priced software
that runs in the background of one of the computers in your house. It acts as
a DLNA Server device on your network and also transcodes a variety of formats
so that is rarely thought about. This functionality is primarily identical to
what Windows Media Player 12, with Windows 7, provides. The cool part is it
reaches out across the Internet to grab and serve up music and video from
countless and growing sources! For instance, if you select the PlayOn DLNA
server, the first or root level folder view will show all of it's current
services. Some of these include Hulu, YouTube, NetFlix (my favorite), Comedy
Central, CBS, Revision 3live streaming video and video podcasts. I have not
been able to do exahstive searches, but they are talking about adding a variety
of music sources as well.
The software needs to search the local network for server devices, and
display them in a list box or combo box. Once the server is chosen, then the
desired media is chosen in some sort of file / folder structure. At last,
another list view or combo box is needed to select where you want the selected
media played and a PlayNow button.
There are a variety of DLNA Open Source libraries that should handle the
complex network tasks. I have not had much time to check them out yet. They
are available for several languages. I was looking at Coherence Python
library. I was going to create the sinple interface in Python as well. I do
not know if the class libraries are as well behaved as .Net to allow mix and
matching. I am not sure such a large unknown is appropriate for a learninhg /
teaching application. But it is interesting!
Here is a link for some Open Source DLNA libraries:
http://elinux.org/DLNA_Open_Source_Projects
This will be ideal to control available whole house audio systems, wireless
speakers, home theater systems, send video to your X-Box / Playstation 3 and
more. My immediate plans are to make my DirecTV DVR useful by playing Netflix
movies for the whole family and to finally find something interesting to play
in the background, since my TV is on 24 hours a day.
By the way, for this and future projects, I want to learn both C Sharp and
Python better.
Don Marang
From: RicksPlace
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:12 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Vb.net or C#.net Tutorial Project
Sure, anything we can think of is doable. Do you have any data storage system
like Sql Server Express or the Sql Compact Edition on your machine?
If you installed the full Visual Studio you might have both available. If you
installed an Express Edition you might have neither and that will be something
to also look into. If there are several folks I would like to get everyone on
the same page, or as close to it as possible with all our diferent machines,
software and all that jazz before we start building a project. Also, do you
have a project in mind or are you working on something? It is better to build
something folks are actually interested in rather than just something to
demonstrate technicals., you learn better and faster when things are relevant
to you and you have an idea of where the project is going and what you want it
to do.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Schulz
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Vb.net or C#.net Tutorial Project
hi,
i would prefer vb.net.
could we include a tree list?
i have part of this created and the main nodes are the letters of the
alphabet in segments of three, then singles, then names starting with that
letter.
so the top node may be ABC, and expands to show A, B, C, vertically, then
if you expand A, it shows your friends names like Alan Jackson, Andy Smith,
etc. and selecting one refreshes a pane with their name, address, phone
numbers, email, etc.
I meant to continue this program but it got put on the shelf.
Bryan Schulz
----- Original Message -----
From: RicksPlace
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:03 AM
Subject: Vb.net or C#.net Tutorial Project
Hi: There have been a few folks who want to get started programming in
either Vb.net or C#.net. If there is some interest in learning to work in one
of these languages I will walk through designing a simple project and then work
with any interested folks on building the project in either Vb.net, C#.net or
both. If we do it on list the project will be in the archives and, or, anyone
with an interest in the step by step tutorial can upload them to some online
repository. If you are interested in this idea let me know and, if we get a
couple of folks to walk through the lessons, I will start from scratch perhaps
this weekend or Monday. I will have to download and install C# Express 2008 if
you want to stick with that language but it can be done.
If you have an idea for a project let me know. Otherwise I will just pick
one like the PhoneBook Project I mentioned to get started. I will also post
some links to articles, or post some of my own, related to the technicals we
will be using so we can discuss them openly and answer questions. The idea will
be to teach how to research technicals online, how to use the VS IDE with a
screen reader and how to do a little vb or C# programming to process things
like clicking a button or accessing a Data Storage File of some sort. Let me
know what you think about this idea.
Rick USA
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