While no formal announcement was made, Microsoft quietly slipped out a new version 0.7 of the Web Gadget SDK last week. In fact the “It’s time to Build” page on the recently crippled MicrosoftGadgets.com still shows version 0.5 (beta).…

Today I submitted another gadget to Microsoft’s gadget gallery that works on both Sidebar AND Live.com/Spaces. Its a sample digital clock gadget to accompany an upcoming article that I’m writing titled “Gadgets: Write Once, Run Everywhere“; an article that shows …

In this article, I will show you how to develop a web gadget (i.e. a gadget designed to run on Live.com or Windows Live Spaces) that will run on Windows Vista Sidebar without modification to the JavaScipt or CSS! This …

As Nick has shown over on Windows Vista Blog, not only can you add the Windows Vista Countdown gadget (talked about here on LiveSide.net) to your Live.com/Spaces web page and Windows Vista Sidebar, you can also add it to …

This is a re-print of a post that I did on my blog. I thought I’d post it here in case you missed it. Look for my companion article in the next few days about how to write one gadget …

Is the Live.com team working on support for Google’s universal gadget manifest format? You can’t load a Google gadget manifest yet, but there are signs that it’s not far off. If I’m right (and I’m sensing that I am…

From time to time I receive emails with questions about my gadgets and gadget development. For example, "How do I create a fly-out in a Sidebar gadget?" or, my favorite, "How do I remove your iTunes gadget from …

The Virtual Earth map control is the power behind Windows Live Local. Using the Virtual Earth 3.1 map control (VE) APIs, you too can create some amazing location based applications of your own. I've worked with VE on a …

Microsoft’s Gadget Gallery today made their “featured gadgets” section open to third party gadgets. Up to now, this space had been populated by Microsoft authored gadgets.

Bruce Kasrel, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft said “We are really energized  by …