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Last night was the first Ottawa Flex user group meeting and the Flex 3 road tour night, and I have to say a user group meeting in Ottawa was long overdue. I want to thank Mike Potter from Adobe and Peter McKinnon for putting on the event. At Fuel we don’t do a lot of Flex or AIR work, but our Flash team went out just to be social and learn about what’s coming up. I am hoping that we can get more people out to the next event, which sounds like it’s going to be February 25th. There was also talk about making it a Flex/Flash user group as well in hopes of getting more people out to the events. Because at the end of the day Flex and Flash developers are all face with the same problems. I really want to make this user group a success again. So if you leave in Ottawa and are interested in coming out please do. You can keep up to date on what’s going on the Ottawa Flex website, and remember that the night doesn’t end at the event. There is always an after event drink or two.

I’ve been playing around with the Media Center SDK over the last couple of days and ran into a small issue when using C# Express Edition. When you create a new Media Center add-in you have to get a Public Key for your application. This needs to get added to your register.xml file so your application gets properly registered within Media Center. The readme file in the Media Center Application Template for Visuall C# explains how to do this. The one catch is that they assume you have the full Visual Studio 2008 installed.

Long story short the readme file says that the target path for your sn.exe is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\sn.exe, when it should be C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\sn.exe if you are using Express Edition.

Took some digging to find that.