Outlook Gadgets Now Available

Microsoft Posts First Official Outlook Gadgets

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:14:29 GMT

Ryan Gregg lets us know that the first "official" (meaning MS designed) Sidebar Gadgets for Outlook 2007

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BS — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:51:51 GMT

Hi! How do I install these gadgets on a german Vista RTM with Outlook 2007 B2TR? Nothing happens right after I choose "Install". Or do I need the full version of Office 2007?

Thanks,

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AdamB — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:27:07 GMT

Very nice idea. BTW is it possible in RTM to change the transparency of the sidebar? These gadgets would be more useful if the sidebar was "always on top", but then I would want it to be transparent maybe at around 20% (when I hovered over it, it would go to 80%). Or instead of that, if it worked like TIP where if I move my mouse to a little thing on the right, the whole sidebar would slide out?

New Microsoft Outlook Gadgets for Windows Sidebar

Windows Vista Team Blog — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:34:31 GMT

Ryan Gregg , Program Manager for Microsoft Outlook, has announced on his blog two new Outlook Gadgets

re: Outlook Gadgets Now Available

rgregg — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:36:46 GMT

BS: These gadgets are currently only available for US-English. Unfortunately there is a bug in the gadget gallery that shows all gadgets to everyone.

We're investigating making these available for several other languages, but I don't have any word on when or if those will be made available.

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rgregg — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:38:12 GMT

AdamB: I don't know if you can change the transparency of the whole sidebar (I can't seem to find a way) you can change the transparency of the individual gadgets. For example, you can right click on a gadget, and set the opacity to 20%, and then when you hover over the gadget it will come back to 100%. This might accomplish something similar to what you are looking for.

Outlook Sidebar Gadgets, should OneNote get one too?

OneNote Extensibility & More.. — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:29:53 GMT

Over on Melissa's & Ryan's blog they announce the Outlook 2007 Sidebar gadgets for download:  Outlook

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brantgurga — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:52:05 GMT

Where can I submit feedback? In any case, my feedback is that both gadgets, and in particular the tasks gadget do not look correct at 134dpi which is the resolution of my screen and consequently the DPI setting in my Vista installation.

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Dave — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:25:25 GMT

Installed on Vista Ultimate RTM, with Office 2007 RTM.

The upcomming appointments only showed the first appointment in my calendar, dated back in 2004 and I could see no way to alter it.

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Vince — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:15:40 GMT

I just covered this info on my blog, good job Ryan

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rgregg — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:00:11 GMT

Brantgurga: I'll take that feedback and see what we can do with it. 134dpi is typically higher than we normally test it with, so it's possible something is just messed up there.

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rgregg — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:02:12 GMT

Dave: What regional settings are you using on your machine?

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GeorgB — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:56:59 GMT

Wow, thank you, these are the first really useful gadgets I've seen so far (maybe the voodoo doll)!!!

But as already mentioned, they are language dependent. To change thatby yourself to match your local/regional settings , decompress the gadget (I used 7-zip) and rename the en-US folder to match your language settings, e.g. I used de-DE. Then zip it, rename to .gadget and you are done.

At least with the task gadget, the appointment needs a little bit more work, the date strings are in US format,... was not all to hard to modify that.

@Dave this seems to be the problem also in your case, wrong date function, thats why you are in 2004... (or maybe thats the secret function to reveal the planned realease of Vista, who knows,...)

I have a modified version of the gadgets to work with the german RTMs on my Vista Blog site www.vistablog.at The modfications were not too complex, I changed only the date functions (and removed the AM/PM to 24h clock)... only enogh that it will run, the screentext is still in english. (Hope thats ok for you Ryan,... otherwise please drop a note, and I'll remove the downloads in a second, its just that vistablog.at is in fact a Microsoft site, and more important: for the first time I see a real use of the sidebar...)

thanks for that!

georg

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Frank — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:17:38 GMT

Same problem as Dave here.. Using an english Vista RTM, but with danish regional settings.

Official Vista Gadgets for Office 2007 Released

Jesse's Avanade Blog — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:32:44 GMT

Over at Ryan Gregg's blog, PM for Microsoft Office, he announced the release of the first two official...

re: Outlook Gadgets Now Available

Adam — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:15:48 GMT

What about one for new mail?

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rolf — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:42:19 GMT

for those using Vista in German, here is a link to a blog post showing how to change the settings which makes the gadgets work on german Vista.

see http://www.vistablog.at/stories/2132/

Delays due to resurfacing

Office Rocker! — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:18:51 GMT

We have launched. I am happy about that and also absolutely knackered. We launched to press on the 30th

Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadget

chewy — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:37:54 GMT

A Vista Sidebar Gadget is a small app that runs in the "Sidebar" of Windows Vista. The gadget's goal