If you like to build your own Vista Sidebar Gadget, get you a template for Visual Studio from here: http://www.box.net/public/ky35h4eq6z

Today we announced the Ö3 Gadget for Windows Vista at the keynote of the Austrian Roadshow "Big>Days 2007" in Bregenz, Austria. The Gadget plays a live stream of the most important radio station in Austria called Ö3. I do also demonstrate the implementation...

Have you ever tried to use an javascript Alert in your Sidebar Gadget? It won't work...you'll have to use a little trick to make that work. I do advise you not to use it in your deployed version, but it makes sense for some sort of debugging or testing...

Well, generating a zip file is very easy....there are a lot of tools out there and even Windows has a built-in command for that! If you need to generate a cabinet file instead, you'll have to use another tool, makecab.exe, that is available in the Windows...

If you finished you Vista Sidebar Gadget, you probably would like to provide it to download it from a website. If you just put it as a <a> tag link in your website, you'll be facing a problem. Users won't be able to download and install it right...

Today I had a final session with Max about our Days" href="http://www.microsoft.com/austria/events/bigdays/default.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/austria/events/bigdays/default.mspx">Big>Days Talk about UX, Web 2.0 and the Windows Vista Developer...

You may like to change the layout and behaviour of your sidebar gadget in docked and floating style. This could be easily done, by handling two events that are fired when docked/undocked. onDock and onUndock are triggered in the case that a Gadget...

Here are we again with another exciting BigDay events in Bregenz, Graz, Linz and Wien. Get you registered soon: http://www.microsoft.com/austria/events/bigdays/ I'm doing a session talking about " User Experience, Web 2.0 and the Windows Vista Developer...

Since today Windows Vista and Office 2007 is broadly available for end consumers and I'm really excited about the first feedback of the end users at home. One new feature of Vista is the Sidebar and its Gadgets, a kind of small applications running...

Well, after working for Microsoft for more than 1 year now, I thought a blog writing about all the new technologies that I'm working with would make sense. so here we go.... I'm working as a Application Development Consultant in Product Support Service...