PowerPlaylist

Project Description
PowerPlaylist adds a custom Start Menu strip with up to five tiles to Windows Media Center in Windows Vista. Each tile represents an audio, slideshow and / or visualization combination which will start when the tile is selected. PowerPlaylist is very customizable by the consumer using the PowerPlaylist Editor, including the title of the custom Start Menu strip and the name, image, audio source, slideshow folder and visualization for each tile.

I want PowerPlaylist...
If you simply want to use PowerPlaylist you can get the latest installer from the Releases tab. Nothing to compile -- just install and use.

Project Prerequisites
To build the binaries and setup (*.msi) files you need to have the following installed:

• Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
• Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
• or
• Visual Studio 2005 Standard (or better)
• and
• Windows Installer XML (WiX) 3.0 Toolset (Wix3.msi) from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ and installed in the default path. Make sure you get the latest version. If you change the default path of the WiX install please edit build.bat accordingly.