Windows Vista Sidebar: Your Visual Blueprints to Developing Cool Gadgets for the Windows OS

Description

Windows Vista Sidebar: Your visual blueprint to developing cool gadgets for the Windows OS details all you need to know about programming Windows gadgets for the Vista operating system. The forums on www.live.com (Microsoft’s gadget beta center) are begging for better documentation on this emerging technology, heavily touted by Microsoft in their Vista information. This book answers all the questions readers are asking about how to create new gadgets to improve their daily computing lives with customized solutions. This book is designed for all levels of users – novice programmers to advanced programmers. This book will follow the well-known and trusted Visual Blueprint approach: extensive visual references; clear, easy-to-understand instructions and concise examples. The tips and techniques presented in this book will make gadget development easy by covering information such as how to create applications for Sidebar and web gadgets for all gadget examples used throughout the book.