Create some cool Gadgets for Vista

You are no doubt aware of www.codeproject.com Wink

They've been adding a lot of new Vista Gadgets (with source) and Gadget tips lately.
http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/

The Top 5, in a recent contest, were:

  1. .NET Interop for Gadgets – A C# GMail Inbox Reader Example
    How to call absolutely any .NET code from your Vista Sidebar Gadget.
    http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/GadgetInterop.asp

    Gadget: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/GadgetInterop/GmailReader.zip
    .NET C# Source: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/GadgetInterop/GadgetInterop.zip
  2. A Vista sidebar gadget to provide weather information
    This article will show the different capabilities of the Vista sidebar, including settings, flyouts, different states when docked and undocked and pulling in live data feeds over the Internet.

    http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/vistaweatherwidget.asp
    Source files: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/vistaweatherwidget/vistaweatherwidget_src.zip
  3. Daily Dilbert 1.0 * : A Sidebar gadget for Windows Vista
    Daily Dilbert is a simple Windows Vista sidebar gadget which delivers the daily Dilbert cartoon on your desktop.
    http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/DailyDilbert.asp

    Gadget: http://csharptricks.com/Projects/Gadgets/DailyDilbert.gadget
    Source: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/DailyDilbert/DailyDilbertgadget.zip
  4. A Gadget for Browsing the Astronomy Picture of the Day
    This article shows a Vista Sidebar gadget that you can use to browse the APOD site and view previews of each day's picture.

    http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/APODGadget.asp
    Demo: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/APODGadget/APODGadget_demo.zip
  5. Weather Sideshow
    A SideShow application that communicates with a Weather webservice.
    http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/WeatherSideShow.asp

    Demo: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/WeatherSideShow/WeatherSideShow_demo.zip
    Source: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/WeatherSideShow/WeatherSideShow_src.zip

In addition to these great examples they've added a Gadget Tips tutorial:

Practices and Hints for Gadgets
http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/gadgettips.asp

Example Gadget: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/gadgettips/Garfield_demo.zip
Example Source: http://www.codeproject.com/gadgets/gadgettips/Garfield_src.zip

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Published Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:16 AM by wisemx
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