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Sidebar Gadget Article

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

Feedback is always appreciated.

Print | posted @ Tuesday, January 02, 2007 4:53 AM

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# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by SFkilla at 1/13/2007 4:25 PM

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©

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by Mark Smith at 1/23/2007 2:40 AM

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

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by scott at 1/23/2007 4:10 AM

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.

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by Mohamed at 10/18/2009 5:43 AM

Hello :))
i just wanted to know if u have any idea where to find the extracted files (especially gadget.html) to see if changes take effect instantly (it would make everything easier i guess)
thanks

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by vikas at 11/8/2009 11:02 AM

Very good article.
Please send me code files for this article . Some css files are missing.

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by Tom at 2/17/2010 10:09 AM

Very good article. The only thing that I need help with is the .css files. Is there some way fro me to get a copy of the .css file for this gadget so I can see the rest of the information.

Thanks!

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by Tom at 2/17/2010 10:09 AM

Very good article. The only thing that I need help with is the .css files. Is there some way fro me to get a copy of the .css file for this gadget so I can see the rest of the information.

Thanks!

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by LF at 3/26/2010 6:21 PM

When I use System.Gadget in my Javascript functions, I get the error

Type Error: 'System' is undefined.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by Paul H at 6/24/2010 10:08 AM

Anyone know of a way to programatically uninstall a gadget? We deployed a gadget to all of our users as a replaement for another one. We want to be able to remove the old one. Any ideas?

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by Cook at 7/22/2010 7:06 PM

I need some help developing a gadget, i want the text input from the options window to be saved and displayed in the flyout in a table, i have played around with it a lot but can't for the life of me figure it out, and finding help is not much easier. I would really appreciate it from anyone.

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by tuti at 7/29/2010 5:03 PM

Hi! Loved your article.
I have a question thought... Do you think it is possible to add some sort of database to a gadget? for example if you want to keep track of the user‘s requests on the search bar. "Norway" would have to appear on your database, for example.

# re: Sidebar Gadget Article

by André at 1/18/2011 8:48 PM

hello - i really appreciated your article; can you send me an example (if you will) on how to build a gadget to display an image (locally stored) and a text over it (text stored on xml file) - let's say i have 2 tags on xml file: today's date and a text. I want to show on the gadget today's text over the picture. Is it difficuld to do?

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