Project Hornet

Hornet 1.1 ("A-SMIL Console") is a Visual C# sample applications that utilizes the AdAPI SOAP interface to control digital signage media players.

Highlight

• Simple SMIL text editor
• Push SMIL script to media players using SOAP API (Adfotain API)
• Start from nearly a dozen of pre-built SMIL sample codes

Screenshot

License

• GPL
• Non-GPL license available from IAdea Corporation

Download

Via pre-built Windows installer, or

download complete source code here: Media:Hornet_1_1.zip

Contents:

• Hornet\
  • Hornet.sln (Open this: Visual Studio solution file)
  • Hornet\
    • AdfotainAPI WSDL Definition\ (WSDL definition file)
    • Properties\
    • samples\ (SMIL sample code)
    • app.config
    • Form1.cs (Main UI code)
    • Form1.Designer.cs
    • Form1.resx
    • Hornet.csproj (C# project file)
    • Hornet.csproj.user
    • Program.cs (Housekeeping code)

Requirements

• Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition, version 9.0.21022.8 RTM (free download)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework, version 3.5 SP1

Known Issues

• "The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred" when sending commands
  • This is related to Microsoft's SOAP implementation. You need to manually override the auto-generated SOAP handlers and turn off the KeepAlive option. Please see fixes at
    • Solving "The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send." (Webservices), Jan Tielens' Bloggings
    • System.Net.WebException: The request was aborted: The request was canceled, MSDN Forums

In the auto-generated adapi_1_0.cs proxy stub, add:

[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Web.Services.WebServiceBindingAttribute(Name = "IASoapHttpClientProtocol", Namespace = "http://schemas.adfotain.org/adapi-1.0")]
public class IASoapHttpClientProtocol : SoapHttpClientProtocol
{
    protected override System.Net.WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri)
    {
        System.Net.HttpWebRequest webRequest = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)base.GetWebRequest(uri);
        webRequest.KeepAlive = false;
        webRequest.ProtocolVersion = System.Net.HttpVersion.Version10;
        return webRequest;
    }
 
    public bool IsCustomSoapHttpClientProtocol() { return true; }
}

Then make MediaControl and ContentManager classes inherit from IASoapHttpClientProtocol instead of the default SoapHttpClientProtocol.

Related

• Managing SMIL players from Visual Studio Express
• WSDL description of the SOAP interface