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Driving Sidebar Gadgets With ActiveX and C#

Overview The Windows Sidebar is one of the most striking features of the new Vista desktop. It's a sort of virtual "Desktop Appliance" which hosts DHTML applets in Windows Explorer. With Vista and its Sidebar, one can enhance the formerly static Windows desktop with myriad widgets and doodads, appropriately named "Gadgets." By default the Sidebar comes packed with some useful (or maybe just fun) gadgets, such as an RSS streamer, a sticky notepad, a clock/calendar, a CPU meter, and one of those 'Slide the tile' games where a developer can try to make the complete picture - but who needs another one of those.

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Publisher	Jupitermedia	File Format	HTML
Date Published	March 2007	Downloads	4
Format	White Papers
Topics	Programming Languages, .NET, Application Development

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Channel:
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Channel:
Operating Systems
Tags:
vista

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Publisher:
ZDNet UK

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ntl:Telewest Business

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Publisher:
IBM

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Publisher:
IBM

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