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 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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Vista Sidebar Gadgets are wonderful, aren’t they? You can do just about everything with a gadget - from checking your Googlemail, to letting you know that your website is down, and even helping you post to your blog.
But all that’s a bit boring, right? Sometimes I think we all need to just switch our brains […]

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