Sunday, February 24, 2008

Book Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming


  • Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming covers sidebar and sideshow gadget development each in their own part of the book. Part 1 will cover Sidebar gadgets while Part 2 covers SideShow gadgets. In each part, the book first explains the motivation behind each technology and its features.
  • Publisher: Wrox
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 047017661X
  • Paperback: 379 pages
  • Data: December 5, 2007
  • Format: PDF
  • Some of the specific topics covered include:
  1. Sidebar gadgets architecture and components including XML manifest
  2. Debugging gadgets in Visual Studio 2005
  3. Deploying gadgets
  4. The Gadget system APIs
  5. Localizing gadgets and sidebar security sidebar projects
  6. Sideshow devices, UI components, and SDK
  7. Sideshow architecture, managed code, and classes
  8. Sideshow simple content format (SCF)
  9. Interacting with sideshow devices and handling sideshow device events
  10. SideShow projects

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