Template for Vista Sidebar Gadget development

Template for Vista Sidebar Gadget development 21 May 2007 18:09

Earlier in the year we posted up a number of posts around Gadget development.
Based on feedback from a number of people interested in developing Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar, we have put together a community template to help kick-start your Sidebar Gadget development.

The template includes:

New "Web Site" templates for Visual Studio 2005
Guidance documentation with how-to's
Samples covering RSS, .NET integration and integrating with Silverlight

To use the template you will need Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2005 installed on your development machine.

You can download it from: http://community.mindscape.co.nz/Windows%20Vista%20Sidebar%20Gadget%20Template%20-%20RC.msi right now, so download it and give us some feedback!

We are planning to update the template with feedback and contributions, so please email them through.

If you want some ideas of Gadgets you could build, take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/nz/windows/gadgets/default.mspx to see what others have been building!

Jonas Follesø - @ 24 May 2007 09:31
Hi Jeremy! Found this post through the Regional Director site. I'm a fellow Microsoft RD interested in Gadget development. My blog is available over at http://jonas.follesoe.no I'm currently downloading your template (but only at 8kb/sec, the connection at the hotel is horrible). I'll get back to you with some feedback later. We might join forces, as I have a few things that would be cool to include in the MSI package. I found a way to get intellisense for the Vista Sidebar Gadget Object Model by stubbing out API as "empty" JavaScript, and "referencing" this in Visual Studio Orcas. I'm 80% done with the Script, and will post about it during the weekend. Later! - Jonas Follesø, Microsoft Regional Director, Norway

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