Windows Sidebar Gadget Development Tutorial

OdeToCode - Developing Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar

"In this article we will develop a new gadget for the Windows Vista Sidebar. The gadget pulls images from Flickr.com to display on the desktop.

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In this article, we'll take a look at developing gadgets for Windows Vista using DHTML, JavaScript, and CSS. We'll introduce the object model, and security aspects of gadget development. By the end of the article we'll have built a real gadget. You can download the code / gadget from OdeToCode

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This is a cool and complete article on creating a Sidebar gadget for Vista.

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