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Differences between gadget programming in Vista and Windows 7?

Besides the obvious fact that there's no sidebar in Windows 7, are there any differences in the way gadgets are put together? Anything I should look out for / resources I should read through?

Thanks!

Solution

  • MSDN covers the differences in gadgets in Vista and Windows 7.

    I think primarily the issues you'll have to deal with are the IE 8 rendering engine and absence of the sidebar. They cover in the article how they still handle the System.Gadget.onDock and System.Gadget.onUndock to maintain backward compatibility.