Understanding the Basics

This section describes basic concepts to understand before you begin developing Windows Media Center applications in the following topics:

Topic	Description
Creating a Strong-Named Assembly	Describes requirements for strong-name signing your assemblies.
Calling Windows Media Center APIs	Describes how to call the Windows Media Center APIs using different development technologies.
Identifying Windows Media Center Versions	Explains how to detect the presence of Windows Media Center and determine the version that the user is running.
Detecting a Windows Media Center Extender Session	Describes how your application can detect whether it is running in a Windows Media Center Extender session.
Preventing Access to Your Hosted HTML Application from the Windows Media Center Extender	Describes how to prevent the user from accessing your application from a Windows Media Center Extender session.
Debugging and Exception Handling	Describes different debugging considerations.
Avoiding Visible User Interface Elements	Describes how to ensure that your application does not cause error messages by attempting to display UI elements in a Windows Media Center Extender session.

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