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...