by Janae Allen
June 26, 2009
In this blog post, I will discuss the steps needed to create a basic gadget in Windows 7. A gadget consists of XML, HTML, and CSS files. I will create a gadget that will use rssxpress-lite to display an RSS feed straight to the desktop.
1. Create the gadget directory
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by Janae Allen
June 22, 2009
Developers interested in creating applications with rich user experiences and animations will be interested in the Windows 7 Animation manager. Also known as Windows 7 Scenic Animation, this API is a set of COM interfaces and is designed to work with any graphics technology. It will...
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by Janae Allen
May 28, 2009
Windows 7 provides a Gadgets Platform which is used to create and host Windows 7 gadgets. Some of the goals of the Gadgets Platform development was to provide excellent backward compatibility with existing Windows Vista gadges, while providing many improvements for gadget developers including better...
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by Janae Allen
May 21, 2009
One of the highlights of the new features of Windows 7 is the Library. The Library is a replacement for the standard Documents folder seen in previous versions of Windows. Using the Library, the user defines the locations of documents / files of the same type that should be collected tog...
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by Janae Allen
May 18, 2009
Introduction
Windows 7 offers a feature called Federated Search which allows users to search internet sites from within Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer uses the search functionality provided by these internet sites and displays the results in a familiar and user-friendly way.&nb...
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by Janae Allen
May 8, 2009
One of the features of Windows 7 is the newly designed taskbar. The taskbar is meant to provide the user a way to quickly access the programs and tasks that interest the user most. Previous versions of the taskbar included a Quick Launch area and the standard area that showed which programs were run...
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by Janae Allen
September 18, 2008
Here is a simple sample of some JQuery code I had to use to implement hide/show functionality of news articles.
For a recent project, the site was built using Ektron as the Content Management System. There was a News page, where news articles entered into Ektron were dynamically displayed...
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