Universal Music gadget for Windows Vista

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# Tom said on February 8, 2007 10:04 AM:

It seems like there would be more Gadget development if Microsoft had chosen to use one of their own languages, such as .NET or VB script, rather than choosing Javascript.  By making such a choice Microsoft has eliminated much of their own developer community who chose to learn the Microsoft languages rather than the competitors languages.

Thank you

# Paul said on February 8, 2007 1:57 PM:

You can write sidebar gadgets in C#.  Admittedly, it's a bit of a fiddle since they're hosted in a browser-like host.

# Scott Kindorf said on July 29, 2007 5:17 AM:

You can actually use any supported scripting language, including VBscript. Just make sure that you declare it as a VBscript in the gadget.html file, such as:

<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/prototype.js"></script>

Again, you can specify whatever script type you want as long as it's a supported scripting framework; js, vb, c#, etc.

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