Sidebar Gadget Article

A new year deserves a new OdeToCode article: "Developing Gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar".

Feedback is always appreciated.
posted on Monday, January 01, 2007 11:53 PM by scott

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:25 AM by SFkilla

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

Hey there,
This is some nice peace of info for those who want to start developping sidebar gadgets.
I've seen you use one of my creations! the HDD Meter... I can tell you it has been updated and is available on my board with many other gadgets... ;)

Link: http://com3.runboard.com/bsfkillaplace

Regards

SFkilla©
Monday, January 22, 2007 6:40 PM by Mark Smith

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

Thanks for the info on the gadget development. I'm trying to debug the javascript in our gadget, and I can't work out how to tell Visual Studio that I'm debugging a gadget not an ASP.NET website. Got any help on how to do that?

I went into VS2005, created a new
Monday, January 22, 2007 8:10 PM by scott

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

Mark:

What I did was use Attach To Process on the debug menu, an attached to the Sidebar.exe hosting my gadget. Then I could use the VS debugger with JavaScript.