Programming with .NET - General

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

waldred — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:28:08 GMT

Ahh yes, I was missing the x-gadget:/// prefix!

<script type="text/javascript">
    Silverlight.createObject(
        "x-gadget:///Widget.xap",
        $d("WidgetContainer"),
        "Widget", 
        {
            width:      "100%",
            height:     "100%",
            background: "transparent",
            windowless: "true",
            version:    "2.0.31005.0"
        },
        { onError: onSilverlightError });            
</script>

Thank you John (and Ivana!)

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

prujohn — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:20:08 GMT

Check Ivana's blog, which has a walkthrough of this that may help you: http://geeks.ms/blogs/itilca/

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

waldred — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:11:30 GMT

I've just run into this same issue described above by Zonenjunge. I've created working Silverlight 2 gadgets before but on a different machine. Thus, I'm thinking this is a system configuration issue.

In the interest of saving time, has anyone encountered and solved this issue?

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Zonenjunge — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:30:05 GMT

Hi,

I also try to run a silverlight 2 gadget, cause I "need" managed script support. Everything works fine in Internet Explorer, but when I add the gadget into sidebar, I only get a blank field. Now I updated everything to Beta 2 and now there's the following message: "InitializeError - Could not download the Silverlight application. Check web server settings"

When I open the html from gadget folder in IE it works, so I think it couldn't be the path, but why can't the sidebar "download" the silverlight application? THe xap is located in the ClientBin folder I think it shouldn't be a problem for sidebar to access that folder.

Has anyone any idea?

By the way: Why will Beta2 not support conversions in SetValue, especially Int32->Double for Canvas.Left or TopProperty?

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

jturinetti — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:15:26 GMT

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think it's that easy. Ben Hall's example makes use of Silverlight 1.0 and therefore all the code is written in Javascript, not C# (since there was no support for managed code yet at that point). Secondly, Silverlight 2.0 is not backwards compatible with previous versions of Silverlight.

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

thierry.bouquain — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:45 GMT

You just have to change the javascript call in the html page that create the silverlight plugin by the object tag you will find in any silverlight 2 html sample

Re: Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

jturinetti — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:17:18 GMT

Thanks for the reply, but I was hoping to use Silverlight 2.0 instead of Silverlight 1.0. Does anyone have resources on this?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

thierry.bouquain — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:31:56 GMT

Here is a sample with silverlight 1 http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/05/vista-sidebar-gadget-using-silverlight.html

Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadgets

jturinetti — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:19:44 GMT

Hello all,

I'm interested in building some gadgets for the Vista sidebar and I've heard that this is possible using Silverlight. Is this true, and can someone point me to a resource explaining how to get started?

Thanks!

-Jeremy