I want to create an app you can download from a website which automatically adds my site's RSS feed to the Vista RSS sidebar gadget and then enables the gadget on the users desktop.
Is this possible with the current infrastructure of gadgets
Creating an app to automatically enable Vista Sidebar Gadgets
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Creating an app to automatically enable Vista Sidebar Gadgets
Jamie Clayton
The goal was to create a branded gadget that could read RSS feeds. However, after thinking about doing it, I would have prefered to just use the built in RSS Gadget, but wanted to make it easy to do for users since sometimes users aren't good at following instructions.
Steve Wang 2006
I think a feature like that wouldn't be very secure. I definitely wouldn't appreciate an application adding a gadget to my sidebar. As far as I know, the Feed Headlines gadget fetches the data from IE7's currently subscribed RSS feeds, so you'd need to start by adding your feed to the subscribed feeds.
Why don't you just create a gadget to display information from your RSS feed - then it's just one download for the user and at least they'll be able to do it themselves. Alternatively, you could just provide instructions for the end user to subscribe to the feed, then start the gadget.
I'd hardly see the point in downloading an EXE file and going through all the UAC hassle just to add an RSS feed to a gadget :) Unless you have a slightly different purpose or target user, of course.
Andy