By day, Ambrose Little is the user experience guidance group lead and codemunicator for Infragistics, the industry leader in presentation layer components. He's written numerous technology articles, contributed to Pro ADO.NET 2 and ASP.NET MVP Hacks from Wrox, and is a Microsoft MVP and ASPInsider.
By night, he's the proud father of three and husband of the best wife and mother on the planet. You can reach him via his blog at http://dotnettemplar.net, a blend of technical and philosophical musings.
Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets are a great way to add value by addressing
targeted and focused user scenarios. Think souped-up system tray - always-on
applications typically used for monitoring something that often drives, based
on notification, to a broader range of related scenarios. The nice thing
about Sidebar is that it gives you more space and freedom to work with in
designing your notification-based applications; rather than being limited to
an icon and toast pop-ups, you can take advantage of resident UI space.
Out-of-the-box Sidebar gadgets include an analog clock, image rotator,
calculator, RSS feed rotator, and a few more. You can go to gallery.live.com
to start taking advantage of the gadgets that others are sharing with the
world. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show samples of what the gadgets look like in
Windows Vista.
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By day, Ambrose Little is the user experience guidance group lead and codemunicator for Infragistics, the industry leader in presentation layer components. He's written numerous technology articles, contributed to Pro ADO.NET 2 and ASP.NET MVP Hacks from Wrox, and is a Microsoft MVP and ASPInsider. 
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