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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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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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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As reported by Stefan Stranger, Microsoft are running an interesting webcast on April 18th at 2pm EST (that’s 9am GMT for me). It’ll run for about an hour and a half, and cover building gadgets using HTML and JavaScript, using ASP.NET AJAX for gadget service calls, and taking gadgets beyond basic technologies with things like […]

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AOL are inviting everybody to test out a brand new Vista Sidebar Gadget: the AOL Search Gadget.
The AOL Search Gadget allows you to easily search the web from your desktop sidebar, and shows current Hot Searches - providing you with one click access to what’s hot on AOL. With Hot Searches, you can easily see […]

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I think I’ve covered this topic quite well in my Gadget Information section, but for those of you who’ve missed it (or ignored it) here’s a very brief overview of Vista Sidebar Gadget technology.

Sidebar gadgets are little HTML applications. They use a combination of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and supporting media (primarily images) packaged in a […]

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Following the successful release of his Code Converter widget onto the Yahoo and Google platforms, Todd Anglin has ported the code into a Vista Gadget - and very nice it looks too!
Code Converter parses either C# or VB (both in .NET flavours) and converts it to the other. It does this by making use of […]

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