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Building a Vista Sidebar Gadget - Part 4, Adding Behaviour

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:32:30 GMT

Vista gadgets exist in the Sidebar and provide quick and easy access to useful functions such as customised searching, currency conversion or a miniature RSS reader.

To build your own gadget is very straightforward. In the main they consist of some HTML for the layout and JavaScript for the behaviour. In this short series we'll take a look at how to create a gadget to perform Technorati searches. We'll design the look and feel, create a UI and add the functionality to call the Technorati search service.

Along the way we'll do a little debugging when things don't quite go to plan.

The source code for this gadget is available for download. See this blog entry for additonal links and source code.

Building a Vista Sidebar Gadget - Part 3, Defining the User Interface

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:52:23 GMT

Vista gadgets exist in the Sidebar and provide quick and easy access to useful functions such as customised searching, currency conversion or a miniature RSS reader.

Along the way we'll do a little debugging when things don't quite go to plan.

The source code for this gadget is available for download. See this blog entry for additonal links and source code.

Building a Vista Sidebar Gadget - Part 2, Creating Look and Feel

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:50:48 GMT

Vista gadgets exist in the Sidebar and provide quick and easy access to useful functions such as customised searching, currency conversion or a miniature RSS reader.

Along the way we'll do a little debugging when things don't quite go to plan.

The source code for this gadget is available for download. See this blog entry for additonal links and source code.

Building a Vista Sidebar Gadget - Part 1, Getting Started

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:48:27 GMT

Vista gadgets exist in the Sidebar and provide quick and easy access to useful functions such as customised searching, currency conversion or a miniature RSS reader.

Along the way we'll do a little debugging when things don't quite go to plan.

The source code for this gadget is available for download. See this blog entry for additonal links and source code.

Build UAC aware apps with VS2008

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:06:27 GMT

Windows Vista SideShow Gadgets in C#

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

A new unique opportunity for Windows Vista application developers is enabled via the Windows SideShow technology. In this video we learn how to create a gadget for SideShow-compatible devices using C#.

Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 Preview Handlers in C#

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

A great new feature, Preview Handlers are available for both Windows Vista explorer files and Outlook 2007 file attachments. See how they work they work and learn how to write your own preview handler in C#.

Restart Manager in Windows Vista

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT

No more reboots, automatic patching with no interrupts is the promise of the new feature in Windows Vista Restart Manager. Learn how to integrate your managed applications with RM.

Sidebar Gadgets in Windows Vista

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Sidebar gadgets are an exciting new opportunity in Windows Vista for UI developers to complement their applications or create standalone utility mini-apps.

Windows Error Reporting in Windows Vista

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Windows Error Reporting has had significant enhancements in Windows Vista, some of which make it more attractive to managed developers. We tour the new APIs and UIs.

Glass with C# in Windows Vista

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT

How to get the new Windows Vista glass look in the client area of your Winforms apps using C# on Vista.

Building RSS Applications with IE7 in Windows Vista

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Windows Vista ships with Internet Explorer 7, which has a new common store for RSS feeds and a programming interface that makes building RSS support into your applications very simple. This session takes a basic look at using the new API to build a simple RSS reader

Integrating Your Application with Windows Vista User Account Control

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT

User Account Control will probably impact every application on Windows Vista. This nugget shows how to offer your users a consistent experience to the one they will get form the OS and fundamentally how to work with UAC.

Programming with Windows Vista Task Dialogs and Other comctl32 v6 Controls

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT

comctl32 v6 has many enhancements. Here we see TaskDialog in depth and also CommandLink Button, TextBox prompt and CommonFileDialog via VistaBridge from the SDK.

Using Application Restart and Recovery

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Windows Vista has new capabilities around detecting application crashes, and providing the application with the ability to restart itself in the event of a crash and to recover the user's data. In this session we explore these new Restart and Recovery APIs.

Programming the Transactional File System

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT

In Windows Vista both the Registry and the File System gain new transactional capabilities. In this session we'll take a look at transactional file system programming from .NET code.