Product Description
- Explores one of the super cool features new to Windows Vista — the Sidebar
- It is a one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants to create killer gadgets
- Includes complete design instructions for four never-before-seen gadgets
Windows Vista Sidebar is a panel located on the desktop of a PC where gadgets can be placed for easy access and reference. These gadgets are small, single-purpose applications, such as clocks, calendars, games, RSS notifiers, search tools, stock tickers, etc, that reside on the Windows desktop and on the Windows Sidebar. The book will be a tutorial to design and develop a gadget. It will provide ready-to-use samples using .NET, XML, CSS and AJAX. After reading the book, a web developer/designer will be confident enough to start developing gadgets for Windows Vista Sidebar. The beginner portion of the book shows an overview of the subject with the design pattern, the architecture and implementation details. The later sections will have solid examples for instant results. In short, the book will tell how to do everything with Sidebar Gadgets using solid, unique examples. Brief outline: ” Brief background on Gadgets ” Define architecture, design consideration and implementation to give a clear view to the developer ” Step by step, create a useful Gadget sample “My Blogs” ” Elaborate the architecture design constraint and implementation details for the sample ” Detail the standard practices ” Recheck the gadget created for standard practices ” Improvise and Improve with compare and contrast ” Add advanced samples with .NET, AJAX and XHTML.
Creating gadgets for Vista is fairly complicated so it’s great to have this book to guide you through it. The book would greatly benefit from a much simpler first example before adding toolbar options and other more complex features in javascript that make it hard to follow the basic flow of the code. Still. . . probably the best book out there on the topic and I was able to create a gadget based on what I learned from this book.
Rating: 3 / 5
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I recommend this book for everyone does not have any information about vista gadgets. Your simple language and good samples, it’s easy to learn, how gadgets works and how made your own. . .
Rating: 5 / 5
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