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Sidebar gadget bug list
Sun, May 20 2007 23:00
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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Building my first Silverlight sidebar gadget
Sat, May 19 2007 0:56
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 that you can't load the Silverlight gadget on the 64x... Read More...
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Hosting Silverlight controls on a sidebar gadget
Wed, May 16 2007 22:54
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" which really means that the ActiveX can't be instantiated... Read More...
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Techdays gadget update
Fri, Mar 16 2007 16:19
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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Getting serious about sidebar gadgets?
Thu, Mar 15 2007 4:46
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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GadgetChecker: a proposal for updating gadgets automatically
Wed, Mar 14 2007 11:24
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 new version (when it's available). Since gadgets run at full... Read More...
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Sidebar Gadget docs broken?
Tue, Mar 13 2007 18:37
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 work; There isn't an Items property on a System.Shell.Folder... Read More...
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