Vista Party At Foothill College
Celebrating the lauch of Vista, a Presentation on Gadgets!
Los Altos, California February 24th, 2007
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Today was my first presentation of the new Gadget technology in Vista. This presentation was done at Foothill College as part of the Vista Party. The goal was to present gadgets as an overview and give some insight into what it takes to develop them. Basically, there are two types of gadgets. Live Gadgets which are designed to run on web sites like live.com, and sidebar gadgets which are full fledged applications that are designed to run just on Vista.
In addition, I demonstrated the details of building a sidebar gadget that lets you monitor the readyboost technology in Vista. Unfortunately, it's still a work in progress. For security reason's I can't figure out how to get the data I need. I'm hoping at the MVP summit in a couple weeks, someone can help me figure this out.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:28 am
I’m kind of confused as to what a gadget really is. I thought it’s a hardware. But based from what I read, it’s more of an application. Well, it’s a good thing that groups are starting to build applications designed for Vista. Although I haven’t had any compatibility problem with Vista (courtesy of the drivers that I got from http://www.radarsync.com/vista), it would be more comforting for us Vista users to be using programs that are especially designed for the new OS.