Over the past couple of months I’ve put a fair few hours into a little side project of mine. The purpose of the project was to create a remote control for Vista Media Center PCs that would run on Windows Mobiles.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve finally released it! It’s available on CodePlex at www.codeplex.com/vmcremote.

At the moment, there’s a PPC 2003 and PPC 2003 SE version up for grabs in this initial release. I’m working on the Windows Mobile 6 versions as well.

All you need to get started is a device that can connect to your network and a media center running MCE Controller.

This thing has already come in handy for me, so I hope it’s just as useful for others. I’m going to continue working on it as much as possible, because I don’t think it’s quite done.

Some coming features will include:

• an improved UI
• bluetooth connectivity
• wake on LAN support
• more targetted versions

Check it out!

www.codeplex.com/vmcremote