DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance, an industry standard for Internet connected media devices in the home. If you have a Windows 7 computer, a Playstation 3 X-Box, Internet connected TV, DVR, Home Theatre, or even some ethernet / wireless home music systems, chances are they have DLNA capabilities already builtt -in! It is not highly markeyted. Salesmen will not even be aware it is in the equipment they sell. I happen to be interested and have been playing around with DLNA in my home. For instance, I purchased some cool cheap software from PlayOn.tv. It runs as a Server in the background on one of the computers in your house and serves up and reformats media from the Internet in a directory like structure. Now DLNA devices like our Playstation 3 and our DirecTV DVR can see and play media it prvides. It is a great way to display Netflix, YouTube,live streams and podcasts on your TV. Since it is a standard and has Open Source libraries, I plan on creating a simple PC application to select media from any DLNA server and direct it to play on another DLNA device like my DVR or sterrio. Currently, most of the selection is normally done on something inaccessible like a TV screen. Don Marang From: Bryan Schulz Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:58 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: C#/VB Tutorial Question what is dlna? Bryan Schulz ----- Original Message ----- From: Donald Marang To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:33 PM Subject: Re: C#/VB Tutorial Question I like this project as well! I will need to build these capabilities first to create my more anmbitious DLNA project I previously mentioned. It is functionality that just about everybody can relate to and has a use. Don Marang From: Bryan Schulz Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:58 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: C#/VB Tutorial Question hi, the music one sounds good. something like finding songs on your drive, showing artist, year, song title, etc. and being able to play it. Bryan Schulz ----- Original Message ----- From: RicksPlace To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:30 PM Subject: Re: C#/VB Tutorial Question Hi Jim: I gave up on the CSharp Tutorials. I was getting major headaches trying to work in CSharp again, just cant handle the stress. I am working on the VB tutorial, or tutorials, for pretty much Raw Beginners. I am just demonstrating the use of a TextBox, ListBox and Button. Also, I touch on Variables, DataTypes, Operators, Arethmetic, the If conditional and Strings. I still have to do looping, Building a Class with functions and subs and perhaps a couple of other basics. The tutorials are just to get them working with the IDE and understanding, from a working viewpoint, how to do things in the IDE to make a program. After that they should be able to handle a project started from the ground up with the rest of us. I regret I can not do a CSharp series but I mean it really makes me grind my teeth working in that language so I'll just have to beg off that and hope someone converts the tutorials into CSharp. I have no idea of what project to use as an ongoing project. Perhaps a Music Library with a player, Video or even a Investing application to pick stocks. I have no clue what would be most popular with the folks. What do you have in mind? I had thought about a Database IDE sort of thingy to build databases like MsAccess or the Sql Server CE types but that might not be popular with too many folks since it is pretty specialized. I just am a clueless slog and am open for suggestions while I wack out these beginner articles. Rick USA R and. ----- Original Message ----- From: Homme, James To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:57 PM Subject: C#/VB Tutorial Question Hi Rick, To start with, are we all going to be doing the same exact project? I have a personal project that I think I'd like to create that I think I may be able to keep re-doing, but add functionality to as I learn more about C# and the environment. It wouldn't exhaust how to work in C# or the environment, but would keep me interested. Jim Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.