How do you display a Silverlight 2.0 application in a Vista Sidebar gadget? Whenever I load a gadget with the standard Silverlight 2 object tag, I get the no-silverlight default content instead of the app. So, what's the trick to allowing it to run? This is how I am currently trying to pull it off: <html> <head> <meta http-equi...
This question was asked by Ed Burns in his book 'Riding the Crest'. I remember that almost all of the rock star programmers found helpful if one had new and kool gadget. Programmer stays in touch with the latest design, hardware and software implementation which may affect also his work. What is your opinion on this question? ...
I am planning to buy portable video player (with MP4 support) to view the msdn web casts, mostly WMV files. Has anyone tried viewing the web casts on a portable player. Which one would you recommend. (e.g. Apple iPod nano 4G) Do keep in mind these web casts show code being written in Visual Studio, so the display needs to be clear enou...
This question is about semantics. I have a client who says that the term "widget" should only be used when referring to a dynamic object that syndicates your own content on to a third party site. I believe widget can be used to refer to any self-contained dynamic object on a site (your own or a third party). However, my client says tha...
I have a javascript widget (a piece of embedded JS and HTML code) that's embedded on other sites. What should I do to make sure it's variable names don't clash with the hosting page variables? I'd like this widget to be "inlined" meaning on the same page as the hosting page, not in an iframe, what's the best way to avoid name clashes wi...
These days there are so many different sites and environments where you can setup a portal and pull data from all over the place. Each of course expects the data in its own format. Do you know of any libraries that make it easy to publish to all these formats so that users can pull your data no matter which they choose to use? Of course...
I have a web site that uses Asp.net forms authentication to login. I need to enable users to login and interact with the site via gadgets using the same authetnication/authorization schema I use on the site. I could not find any good information regarding asp.net authentication and google gadgets. How can I make the gadgets login using...
Hello everyone, 1) I have this function in my .html file. This .html file is hosted on google site, but I can make a connection to www.yahoo.com using the makeRequest function, infact I can make connection to any site that is not hosted on google site. My problem is, the moment i change the URL to a http://mymachine:8080, the makeRequest...
I'm developing a Vista/Win7 Desktop Gadget that uses a translucent g:background (doc) area with g:text (doc) on top. I'm adding the text via addTextObject (doc), and this all works as expected. However, I can't figure out how to set that text to bold style. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this directly via the exposed properties th...
Is there a possibility to "fix" the WPF application on the desktop (like Win7 Gadgets)? I have found some code which achieves this on Win XP but it is not working on Win7. It uses the user32.dll. public void DockStart() { IntPtr hwndParent = FindWindow("ProgMan", null); HwndSource hwndSource = PresentationSource...
hey guys! i try to debug a windows gadget. Just-In-Time debugging fires up and i can see an VS2010IDE attached to the sidebar process. But there is no source code to debug! Only a blank file with the yellow debug pointer. What is my problem? Configuration of my system is based on this article: Gadgets for Windows Sidebar Debugging (ht...
I am having load of issues getting my SL-based gadgets to work! I do the following: Create a standard silverlight application (Silverlight 3 GDR 2 - 3.0.40818.0) and run it - it works! I then take the ClientBin folder, the test page (html) and the silverlight.js files and place them in a folder! I then double click on the html test page...
I'm creating a gadget for Google Desktop, and I can't find a way to undock the gadget programmatically. Is it possible? ...
I'd like my gadget to have two different views: One when it's just been added, to let the user enter some information, and, once he's done with that, another which displays some data based on that information. The earliest point at which I can decide which of those two views I have to display is when I get the state for the first tim...
I have recently been tasked with working on creating a gadget for a project that is hosted on app engine. I am also hosting the gadget specification on app engine. The gadget specification is generated on the server side as it refers back to the application id that the gadget is hosted on (this project may be hosted on multiple IDs), so...
I'd like to host a Google Gadget on our production app server which will provide a means of authentication and display some interesting information from our database. Obviously I'd prefer to develop and test this outside of our production site. Is there any means of testing testing a Gadget that is hosted on my dev box? I'm new to ga...
I wonder if there is a tool/framework available that supports testing Google Wave Gadgets outside Google Wave. I know these two emulators (1 and 2), but I still always would have to upload my gadget for every debugging run. I am looking for a tool that displays the current state, allows to modify the state and to send the state back to...
Does anyone have a good example of a WPF or silverlight windows gadget? ...
Imagine I want to create game "Rock-paper-scissors" for Google Waves. I am thinking to implement it as a Wave Gadget. The idea is simple: all participants send their decisions to my cloud app (it is an Appengine Java Application), my server part collects this data and does not share to anybody until all participants complete their selec...
I'm learning Google Wave gadgets. I'm trying to force my gadget to resize itself. But I'm keep getting error that gadgets.window is undefined. Here is my gadget: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <Module> <ModulePrefs title="GitHub Gist Gadget"> <Require feature="wave" /> <!--Require feature="locked-domain" /--> <Requi...