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20 May 2007
Sidebar gadget bug list
Jon Abbot has a list with several know bugs (with code that reproduces those problems) here . Very cool resource. Just wish that there was a similar one for silverlight. Read More...
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19 May 2007
Building my first Silverlight sidebar gadget
well, almost, that is. And what a ride it was, letting me get some important info on several aspects related with C# coding and Javascript interop. First, I'd like to thank Bruce Williams for providing the answer for the issue related with running Silverlight on my 64 bits machine : the problem is... Read More...
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16 May 2007
Hosting Silverlight controls on a sidebar gadget
What was supposed to be an easy task simply doesn't work. It seems like I can instantiate the AgControl ActiveX object from a "normal" HTML page but it doesn't when the page is loaded on the Windows Sidebar. The error is the old "Automation server can't create object"... Read More...
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16 March 2007
Techdays gadget update
Today I've done a small change to the Techdays gadget I've talked about here . You can get it here . Read More...
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15 March 2007
Getting serious about sidebar gadgets?
Well, then check Jonathan Abbot's blog. It has already saved me the time to code for automatically registering an activex dll :) Read More...
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14 March 2007
GadgetChecker: a proposal for updating gadgets automatically
I've been playing with SideBar gadgets for some time now. Besides some quirks (ok, they're really bugs :) ), I've been please with how easy it is to build a gadget and deploy it. One of the things I've been missing though, is an auto-update feature that automatically checks a web site and downloads a... Read More...
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13 March 2007
Sidebar Gadget docs broken?
Today I've just lost 30 mins trying to enumerate the items that exist inside a folder with the Gadget API. Guess what? The docs aren't correct (I'm not sure why, since Gadgets exist for a long time now). Several things I've found today: I couldn't manage to get the System.Shell.Folder.parse method to... Read More...
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