How to host iGoogle widgets in my ASP.NET application?

Question

I am designing a dashboard for my own application to serve as a control panel for the end user. I am thinking about using the Dropthings framework or DynamicDashboards which cover all of my internal widgets requirements.

But besides including widgets developed internally by me, I would like for the user to be able to include iGoogle widgets as well.

Is this possible? What needs to be done in order to host an iGoogle widget?

Answer 1

Since nobody came forward and after some investigation I found that gadgets on iGoogle now support canvas view and OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, which means that I should find a way to support OpenSocial within ASP.NET.

There are porting projects for the OpenSocial API, although pretty inactive and incomplete.

So, as a final answer, it can be done but not easily.