Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Creating a .NET Sidebar Gadget - The Easy Way

Mark Schmidt's Abode — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:49:06 GMT

Creating a .NET Sidebar Gadget - The Easy Way

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Tim Hibbard — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:01:42 GMT

I keep getting an error at:

AxSBHost.RegisterGadgetAssembly(gadgetFilePath);

Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property or method;

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

markhsch — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:20:15 GMT

Interesting. Are you running as an administrator on your system (not sure if that's the problem, just troubleshooting). Look in your registry and see if you can see this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{30E72785-9BEB-4ed0-B60A-4504D0AF7AAE}

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Tim Hibbard — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:35:51 GMT

I am running as an admin and I did not find that key in my reg.

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

markhsch — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:55:31 GMT

What happens if you jump into the command line and run: regsvr32.exe AxSBHost.dll in your gadget folder? Do you get an error?

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Tim Hibbard — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:04:23 GMT

I then get an error message that says:

The module "C:\...\output\AxSBHost.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80070005.

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

markhsch — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:15:46 GMT

Ok, that narrows it down enough for me to look at it. If I'm guessing correctly, you have UAC turned on and you're running into registry permission problems. I'll look into this and update the app.

Thanks for looking into it.

-Mark

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Tim Hibbard — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:19:59 GMT

Cool...Thanks for your work on this. I'm very excited about using it!

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Danny — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:19:53 GMT

"(if need be, I can post the source code for the BouncingBall gadget that is included as a sample for the application)"

Yes, *please*!!! :-)

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Jon Abbott — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:30:12 GMT

Are you sure this will work? REGSVR32 will only work if the user is an elevated Administrator. You'll need to manually put the DLL reg entries into HKCU for a standard Administrator.

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Dan Ciruli — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:53:34 GMT

This is awesome! I've been itching to write a sidebar gadget (I'd love to have something that monitors our software), but the idea of slumming in COMland has kept me from it. I'm going to do this soon!

I'll let you know how it goes...

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Otto — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:30:45 GMT

I get an error running registergadget.exe on vista that the index of the array was out of bounds? Even with the sample.

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

Guybrush — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:16:28 GMT

I get the out of bounds index error on Vista as well. I am really looking forward to see this working! :)

re: Creating .NET Sidebar Gadgets...The Easy Way

markhsch — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:24:11 GMT

**NOTE** A new version of the tool has been posted. See http://blogs.msdn.com/markhsch/archive/2007/07/24/net-sidebar-gadget-creator-update.aspx

-Mark