Last month, the Vista Team Blog posted an update to the Gadgets Competition running on Code Project.
The competition is now complete, and it resulted in 29 entries - and considering that Code Project was hoping for 20 they’re quite pleased! The source code for the top 10 gadgets has been downloaded by about 159,000 developers. […]

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It’s long overdue, but the Windows Live Gallery has had a makeover! There’s new and all-encompassing front end, that includes all the goodies you can get on the site - not just Vista Gadgets. Lots of the little niggles I had with it (especially when surfing using Firefox) also seem to have been sorted!
So… If […]

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I’m going to have some free time coming up next month, after I’ve finished the pre-launch promotions for the Britster project, and I’d like to spend it developing some new gadgets!
So… I’m looking for ideas. Is there a gadget that you desparately want to see exist, or perhaps you’ve seen a good gadget that would […]

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Blimey! Nathan at the InsideMicrosoft blog is on a roll… Two roundups in two days!
Issue 9 of his regular series includes a mish-mash of the latest gadgets to be released. The SayaTV Gadget is interesting - in that it’s the first to offer live TV from the Sidebar.
I’m also a fan of Garfield, so I […]

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Nathan Weinberg has just posted the eigth of his series of Gadget roundups on the InsideMicrosoft blog. As is typical, there’s details on a random selection of reasonably useful Sidebar goodies.
However, with three of them not working, one with errors, one that crashes your sidebar, and at least one that’s totally pointless (i.e. just pointing […]

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It was only a matter of time before developers realised that they could leverage the Vista Sidebar platform as a base for a substantial social network. Well that’s exactly what one enterprising coder has done with the release of his VistaShout Gadget. The gadget sits quietly in the sidebar, and expands to offer a familiar […]

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Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of a decent post for the last couple of days. I’ve been under pressure to complete a client’s project on time, and today it was my 30th birthday.
So, everything will be back to normal tomorrow, but for now feel free to have a look at my new personal […]

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If you’ve worked through the initial tutorials for building gadgets, and you’re looking to take things to the next level, then there’s a fantastic tutorial by Jan Kucera to see at The Code Project. It takes you through the steps required to make yourself a Garfield daily cartoon gadget, and covers more advance topics than […]

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