WPF/E In a Sidebar Gadget

In response to a question on MSDN, I crufted up a really simple SideBar gadget for Vista using WPF/E as the user interface.  (It just shows a simple animation when first added to the bar).  SideBar (and perhaps Live) Gadgets are likely to be a fun place to use WPF/E.  You can download and install it here (assuming you already have WPF/E runtime installed:

WPFE Sample Gadget

 

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Thanks for the sample. Works great! Now if you could just figure out how to load images and video... :)

Bryant Likes (Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 )

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There seems to be an issue with any relative paths (that's why I embedded the XAML).

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 )

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Ahh, I was so looking forward to trying this, got the message about "you need WPF/E 2006 CTP december release" and followed the link... found that february CTP is available, downloaded it and... still the same message. Guess I need just that, the December 2006 release :)

Nice poc anyway !

Johan (Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 )

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@Johan
Edit Line 5 in WpfeScriptHandler.js with
var WPFE = new ActiveXObject("AgControl.AgControl");

I wonder why MS aghost method doesnt work in Sidebar.

Homam (Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 )

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This article explains some of the reasons why new ActiveXObject doesn't work:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965881.aspx

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 )

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Wanted to say, your tutorials are great! really made my life easy.

Asaf (Posted Saturday, September 01, 2007 )

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What i actually wanted to say, can you show us how you made the gadget?

Asaf (Posted Saturday, September 01, 2007 )


 



 
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