/// <summary>
/// This is an oddity under TVPack, sometimes the MediaCenterEnvironemt and MediaExperience objects go bad and become
/// disconnected from their host in the main application. Typically this is after 5 minutes of leaving the application idle (but noot always).
/// What is odd is that using reflection under these circumstances seems to work - even though it is only doing the same as Reflector shoulds the real
/// methods do. As I said it's odd but this at least lets us get a warning on the screen before the application crashes out!
/// </summary>
/// <param name="message"></param>
public static void DialogBoxViaReflection(string message)
{
MediaCenterEnvironment ev = Microsoft.MediaCenter.Hosting.AddInHost.Current.MediaCenterEnvironment;
FieldInfo fi = ev.GetType().GetField("_legacyAddInHost", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.GetField | BindingFlags.Instance);
if (fi != null)
{
AddInHost2 ah2 = (AddInHost2)fi.GetValue(ev);
if (ah2 != null)
{
Type t = ah2.GetType();
PropertyInfo pi = t.GetProperty("HostControl", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public);
if (pi != null)
{
HostControl hc = (HostControl)pi.GetValue(ah2, null);
hc.Dialog(message, "Media Browser", 1, 120, true);
}
}
}
}
