Thursday, September 22, 2005

Google Desktop Simple Time .Net Plug-In (Sample)

Google Desktop, .NET Style!: New Plug-in: Simple Time...

"I threw together a fairly simple Time Display plugin. Ability to show the time digitally (or basic), which you can provided your own 0-9 images. Show's date, day of week label and even has a high-resolution timer built in (down to the microsecond).

A few things:
1. I have a pretty generic Settings class which uses XML Serialization which can be re-used for any plugin
2. I'm using the "InPlaceActivateHack"
3. Demonstrates how to create your plug-in using the designer (the default plugin.cs class will just need to derive from your UserControl)
4. Custom digital images need to be placed: PluginPath+@"\Images\0.jpg" (0 to 9).jpg
5. Of course it is all C#, I don't plan on doing any in VB.NET
6. Comes will all the goop for the installer project as well (COM Registration and actual project installer)
..."


Interesting in writing a Google Desktop Sidebar Plug-in? Then check out Rob Chartier's cool Simple Time project.

While your there make sure you also check out his cool WinAmp, WMP and X10 plug-in's...

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