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Developing simple Windows 7 Gadget – Part 3

09-Mar-10

In this I am exploring another two features of Gadget API, one is Docking and other is Flyout. The Docking feature is helpful in Windows Vista, because the gadget lives only in Vista Sidebar, but in Windows 7 it can be anywhere in the desktop. The Docking feature helps to change the size of Gadget, [...]

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Developing simple Windows 7 Gadget – Part 2

24-Feb-10

In my last post I have created a simple Windows 7 Gadget for testing Regular expressions. In this post we look into the Gadget Options dialog and Gadget API, which helps to display the options dialog and save the preferences from the User. The options dialog is a nice feature used in Gadgets to manage [...]

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Developing simple Windows 7 Gadget – Part 1

24-Feb-10

Gadgets are simple and lightweight applications, which can be developed using HTML, Javascript and CSS. Gadgets can also include Image files. In Windows Vista, we can create Gadgets by zipping the files, and rename the it with .Gadget extension. In Windows 7 we can create Gadget by creating the .Gadget folder in C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\ [...]

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GodMode in Windows 7

18-Jan-10

Few days before one of my colleague twitted a link about GodMode in Windows 7. I just visited the link and I found it is kind of Easter egg from Microsoft, which gives a list of Program tasks like control panel. The website is also mentioned like it is also available in Windows Vista, but [...]

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Microsoft Community Tech Days

06-Oct-09

Kerala Microsoft Users Group is organizing the Microsoft Community Tech Day in Trivandrum on 24th Oct 2009.

Agenda

08:30AM – 09:15AM – Registration
09:15AM – 09:25AM – Welcome Speech
09:25AM – 09:45AM – Key Note Session
09:45AM – 05:00PM – Technical sessions

Technical Sessions

Windows Azure & Clouds
SQL Server tips
Coding for Fun (Twitter, Orkut, Facebook, GTalk etc from .NET C#)
SketchFlow for prototyping
Windows [...]

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