What ever happend to the old gadgets from Microsoft ?

What ever happend to the old gadgets from Microsoft ?

• Hemant Hindlekar

  Those are prototype gadgets not built using current technologies - DHTML, therefore wouldn't work with current sidebar, as far as I know. I personally really like the spinning media gadget. It could probably be done using DHTML, but not sure most processors could handle javascript doing that kind of work therfore not very practical.
  
  
  

• kalai

  http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx postid=128231

  ^ thats the video. There are a few cool gadgets in it

  
  

• dakoris73

  i duno but you can find old ported gadgets if you search for them ;)
  

• moo10032

  Yes, this can be done with DHTML and doesn't take much CPU time - around 5% on my X2 4400 dual core. I was going to do it on my MP Gadget, but it would mean it couldn't be skinnable.
  
  

• Gianluigi.Zanettini

  >>Today i was going through an old video which was basically showing the sidebar development team. The video had some cool gadgets in it like the wmp11 gadget, a gadget which showed >>emails etc.

  >>I just wanted to know does Microsoft plan to release them to the public

  I've not seen the video you mean, but a lot of these kind of gadgets can be found, when you click on the "Add Gadgets" and then follow the link to "More gadgets online" (which links to http://gallery.microsoft.com/Results.aspx vista=landing&rdm=202971&l=1&ti=2). I realise these are independently made gadgets but there is an outlook one and several wmp ones, including a wmp shuffle one. I've opened up the code to several and basically they're just embedded <object> elements linking to wmp11 with a few customized settings, which is probably what the ones in the video were too I'd recommend just downloading a couple and modifying them to your own requirements, which is what I've been doing :-).

  Chris

  
  
• What ever happend to the old gadgets from Microsoft ?