Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project - final results


Posted by Nick White on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:17 AM 6 Comments

Last month we posted an update to the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project.  Now that the competition is complete, the team behind it would like to thank everyone who entered.  The goal of the contest was to deliver 20 quality Sidebar Gadgets; we surpassed our goal considerably with a total of 29 gadget entries.  The source code for the top 10 gadgets was downloaded by about 159,000 developers.

Join us in congratulating the winners, and give their gadgets a whirl and let us know what you think:

Soapbox Video Gadget

Soapbox video gadget 

and

.NET Interop for Gadgets – A C# GMail Inbox Reader Example

An Honorable Mention was earned by A Virtual Earth slide show Gadget for Windows Vista.

This contest was certainly a success in encouraging developers to create interesting and quality Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets.  Thanks to everyone who entered!

APR 25
 

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APR 25
 

Posted by Paul Mooney

Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project - final results Last month the Windows Vista...
APR 26
 

Posted by llaske

Many thanks Nick for your "Honorable mention" for my Gadget on Virtual Earth.

I was slightly disappointed not to be in the winners. Your encouragments are great !

Note than Mobilis Immobile Gadget is now in the Vista Gadget Gallery at http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=42ed4a54-5dc8-4d15-b123-833d1918a1a7&l=1
APR 26
 

Posted by someone

I wish MS would offer a more powerful SDK/IDE for developing gadgets and something for end-users to quickly create gadgets from web pages like Apple will be doing. MS doesn't seem to be serious about Sidebar as a platform, it looks like a "me too" effort.
MAY 04
 

Posted by Teamzille.de

Um die Qualitt und Zahl der verfgbaren Gadgets fr die Vista-Sidebar zu erhhen, wurde die Windows Vista Gadgets Competition ausgerufen und hat regen Zulauf gefunden. Jetzt stehen die Gewinner fest und knnen im Windows Vista Team Blog begutachtet werd
JUN 15
 

Posted by Quartz

very cool :)
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