How to directly launch a Windows Media Center application from Visual Studio 2005

I wrote this post on the Media Center Sandbox blog earlier tonight that I wanted to link to here as well in order to improve discoverability.

In this post, I describe a set of steps that caon be used to modify the configuration for a Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application (created from the project templates installed as part of the Windows Media Center SDK for Windows Vista) so that you can register and launch the application directly within Windows Media Center when you press F5 in the Visual Studio IDE. I have found this type of configuration useful because it saves me from needing to uninstall and reinstall the application assembly to the GAC each time I rebuild it.

I encourage you to check out this post for an additional debugging option for Windows Media Center applications in Windows Vista.