Resources for getting started with MCML?

Can anyone suggest some references or other resources that are useful in learning MCML?

I have a small pet project I have been working on for a while using C# and .Net 3.5. I have reached a point where I want to be able to send output from it to Windows Media Center, but I have been having a hard time finding coherent explanations of how to create MCML elements to represent my C# data objects. Particularly I am having a hard time finding information on creating an MCML element for each element in a C# collection. Any suggestions?

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• The Windows Media Center Sandbox is probably the best resource. But I guess you knew that already. The media center development blog is also pretty nice. Can this article get you started?

  I'm very much a n00b myself though..

  From Torbjørn

• In addition to keeping up with sandbox. I would recommend the following.

  1. Look at the Media Center SDK, the Z application and the MCML sampler are a good start.
  2. Look at some of the open source MCML application like VideoBrowser, OML, MusicBrowser or Vmc Netflix , read the source, try to figure out how they work.

  Ideally, I would recommend trying to join an existing project when it comes to learning MCML, since MCML is really hard to get your head around and has a really steep learning curve. Forget about expression blend, when developing in MCML you are pushing XML files in Visual Studio and dealing with a complex, incomplete and buggy framework.

  With your issue, you really need to understand data binding, the open source projects and the sample apps all have examples on how this is done.

  From Sam Saffron