Turbocharge Vista Sidebar Gadget Development with PowerGadgets

or IT professionals dealing with multiple, complex applications and systems, monitoring has always had a magical appeal: You flip on the monitoring software, put your feet up on the desk, and wait for the alarms to sound. With the flip of a switch, you can assure your boss that all systems are running as expected.

PowerGadgets offers to help with that—though it's a little more complex than flipping one switch. Targeting non-coding IT professionals, PowerGadgets wraps disparate and complex data with a powerful charting API, making it easy to represent data visually, on the desktop. You can use any SQL Server query, Web service, or Windows PowerShell object as the basis for rendering intuitive charts, maps, and gauges.