Hello all, first post here in the experts community.  I made a little standalone app in .net 4 that will add any arbitrary webapp or program into the extras library.  This is my first expierence with .net so it is rough around the edges.  I would love people to test it out and give me some feedback over at the google code page.  Find it here: http://code.google.com/p/relaunch/downloads/list  All it does is make an autoit script and puts it in "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Relaunch" as an exe along with an image to display in WMC.  It puts an MCL file in "C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\Media Center Programs".  Point being, if you need to remove an app link then delete the files in those two folders and relaunch media center.  I'd like to add that functionality in the app some time in the future.  It makes no modifications to the media center dll, so I am pretty sure updates and the like will not mess it up.  Hope some people find it useful!

fenixrising123, Thanks for sharing this. Can you give some examples of how you are or envision others using the Relaunch app?

Sure.  This is how I use it.  Put the path to hulu desktop and an image of the hulu logo in.  Then go to the extras library and right click on the new icon and select add to start menu.  It will add an icon in the front of the top menu of media center with the hulu logo.  I can then launch hulu from media center without a keyboard and watch things that are in my queue.  When exiting hulu, it brings media center back.  No need for a keyboard!  I also use it for clicker.tv, google tv spotlight, crackle, youtube XL, and so on.  Am I missing any other 10 foot, remote friendly web apps?  I use chrome in fullscreen(or kiosk) mode so it launches like an app with no tabs or borders.  It is kind of like hitting f11 while in the browser.  That is how I use it.

AddictiveTips blogged about it if you want to see an example as well.

When exiting application it brings back WMC, but how do you get back to WMC from a website running at full screen? Hit Back or hit TGB? Will it stop if there is a video playing or will it just keep playing in the back?

Interesting.  I have a button on my asus remote that I mapped to alt-f4, but I have no idea how you might get back otherwise.  I used an app called intelliremote ($24).  Just so you know f11 will un-fullscreen the browser.  I could add something like this in, but it couldn't be the back button because some websites use the back button.  You think the green button would work?  My remote has no green button.  Question for you: If you are at the desktop with no applications open and you hit the green button, what happens?

Green button brings up WMC of course. :)

With other plugins (hulu, Zinc and others) it kind of suspends WMC and starts ZINC (basically a modified firefox browser running F11 with default set to Zinc portal). After you are done watching you can Exit ZINC or just hit the green button and WMC would start again (or you can just map a button on your keyboard to WMC Shortcut on your desktop) When you get back to WMC, ZINC would be just shut down.

You can check the add-on, I got the ZINC Launcher here on this site.

I'll  bet it is not too hard to code that into my app.  I'll get to that when I have a minute.  Bassicaly something like if chrome or the app stops running OR the green button is hit, then close the app if it is running and bring media center into focus.  Assuming it is as easy as I think, I'll post a reply here when I have an update.  This is a great idea that doesn't really apply to me, but would be really useful for many others.  Thanks!

Hate to dig up an old thread, but I finally got around to implementing the green button to bring up media center and close the web app.  Have a look!