Our next step is to save our notes so they’re still around the next time you restart Sidebar or the computer. We’ll need to figure out: · How to get the data out of the RichTextBox · How to save and load the data to disk. Saving data to disk is...

Attaching the Visual Studio Debugger to your Gadget running in the Sidebar When working with WPF code in XBap form, things work a little differently than you may expect. Your code doesn't run in the Sidebar.exe process, it runs in a separate process...

Creating a new XBap project First we start off with a generic XBap project, as so: Adding a RichTextBox Modify the contents of Page1.xaml to contain a RichTextBox rather than a <Grid> as so: < Page x:Class = " NetNotes.Page1 "...

Why? I like the Notes gadget that comes with Windows Vista's new Sidebar. I use it all the time to replace my old, ah, "organization skill" of keeping a copy of Notepad up and running in the corner of my screen with my todo list and thoughts of the...