Use this link to find a software update for the HP Media Center by Cyberlink for playing Blu-ray DVDs when and if you are getting the message that you need to update your DVD software/hardware. The error message on the computer states you need to visit the site http://cyberlink.com/bdupdate and perform an update of your DVD blu-ray hardware and software; but the problem lies in it not detecting any software to download.

Use the link to find the free patch to update your machine and get it working again. In short, this worked!

1. follow the link
2. download the software
3. begin the installation
4. answer the questions to uninstall the old HP Mediacenter software and install the new
5. start the Mediacenter

The disc was recognized and started playing the movie. Finally!

The Long of the Story

I bought the X Men trilogy blu-ray for my wife for Mother’s Day and tried playing it in our HP Pavilion dv7-1273cl laptop. It didn’t work. It initially started when I had previlus model of HP laptop in December of 2008, but the fan failed. I returned it and purchased a more updated model. Now having the fan taken care of the same problem still existed for the DVDs.

But, thanks to this posting on the HPs forums I found the link to take care of it.

Originally, we bought Horton and it didn’t work. I bought Batman, it worked. I now bought X Men and it didn’t work … consistently. Now that I’ve done the patch, all of them, so far, are working.

Hope this helped you out too.

When creating a web control in an ASP.net application many times you will need to make references to information, data values and other contents of the web control from the web control parent. This is done by adding a Property statement on the control. It could be as simple as a Username and Password control to set or get the information at times of requesting login details.

Follow these steps to connect and use data on the User Web Control:

1. Create a new Web Control in your application project
2. Place two label and two textboxes on the control
3. Name the two controls txtUsername and txtAddress
4. In the code behind of the control add the following code (C#)private string username = String.Empty;
   private string password; = String.Empty;

public string Username {
get { return username; }
set { set username = value; }
}

public string Password{
get { return password; }
set { set password; = value; }
}

5. Close the control designer windows, saving all changes
6. Open the web page that will use the control
7. Drag and drop the new web control onto the web page canvas (if you already had the web control on your webpage and you added new interface elements (public functions or properties), you will likely need to remove the controls including the REGISTER statements at the top of the page so that the interface elements are reconnected to the page for you.
8. In the code behind the web page, make any references to the Tag name of the control (assuming “uc1″ in this case) using the following statements (C#).this.uc1.Username = “Your username”;
   this.uc1.Password{ = “Your password”;

This concludes the tutorial to add a simple web control and connect to it from the parent web page where it resides. This concept will help in many ways like, login pages, bread crumbs, contained lists, or other user interface lists.