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Get Going with Windows® Sidebar Gadgets
Wondering what to do with Windows®'s Sidebar? Our resident Windows guru Justin Whitney decided to whip up this Windows Sidebar Gadget to show how easy it is to create a Gadget and tie it into dynamic content. Don't know what a Sidebar Gadget is? Then be sure to watch the video and read the walkthrough first. 
Watch the Demo
DevX has created a Windows® Sidebar Gadget just for you. Check out this video to see a quick demo of what it looks like on the Vista desktop. (Note: The video below requires Windows Media Player. If you don't have it you can download it here.)

Features:

  • Consume an RSS feed from Destination.NET.
  • Scroll through a year’s worth of headlines.
  • Click the one you want to see for an article summary.
  • Edit Gadget Settings to filter the articles based on Category (ex. “Live Event” or “Article”) and Subject (ex. “Vista” or “SQL Server”)

Read the Walkthrough
For a blow-by-blow on building the DevX Destination.NET Gadget, the tips and tricks, the trials and triumphs, check out this walkthrough by Justin Whitney. It covers all the basics on creating a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget, as well as important considerations in building an RSS reader like this one. You’ll also get to taste the unique pleasure of building a Windows Vista product on a Windows XP development station. (Don't miss the sidebar: Developing a Windows® Sidebar Gadget in Windows XP )

Download the Gadget
To install this gadget, download it onto your Vista machine. Vista will probably change the extension from .gadget to .zip. If so, change it back to .gadget. Then just double-click to install. This gadget does not have a signed security certificate, but you can trust us!

As an added bonus for developers, this gadget uses only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. So when you download the gadget, you’ve downloaded the source files. And these particular files have been fully annotated with instructions, considerations, and developer deliberations. Tweak this code to get what you want or use it to build something entirely your own.

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