Sidebar gadgets can bring useful and convenient functionality to the Vista desktop -- especially when you create a custom gadget to meet your own (or your users') specific needs. This chapter from
Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX (COM) and Silverlight explores the issues of gadget design and user interface.
Title: Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX (COM) and Silverlight
Author: Rajesh Lal
Chapter 3: "An Approach to Design"
ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32968-5; Copyright 2008 by Sams. Used with permission of the publisher. For more information, please visit
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