Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming -- About the Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Part I: Sidebar Gadgets -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Windows Sidebar -- What Is Windows Sidebar? -- Using Sidebar -- Sidebar Gadgets -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Programming Windows Sidebar Gadgets -- Components of a Sidebar Gadget -- Your First Sidebar Gadget: Microsoft Virtual Earth -- Enhancing the Gadget -- Distributing Your Sidebar Gadget -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Exploring Sidebar Gadgets APIs -- Contacts -- Debugging and Diagnostics -- System Information -- Sidebar Gadgets UI -- Machine Information -- Emails -- Network -- System Shell -- Sounds -- Time and Time Zones -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Enhancing Sidebar Gadgets -- Interacting with .NET Code Using .NET Interop -- Interfacing with SideShow Devices -- A Sample SideShow-Enabled Sidebar Gadget -- Localizing Sidebar Gadgets -- An Improved Approach to Localization -- Deploying and Signing Gadgets -- Tips for Developing Sidebar Gadgets -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Sidebar Gadget Project -- A Geo-Tracking and Geo-Tagging Gadget -- Building the GPS Tracker -- Testing the GPS Tracker -- Creating the .NET Component -- Modifying the VirtualEarth Gadget -- Summary -- Part II: SideShow Gadgets -- Chapter 6: Introduction to Windows SideShow -- SideShow Devices -- Experiencing SideShow Using the SideShow Simulator on Windows Vista -- Installing SideShow Gadgets -- SideShow Architecture -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Programming SideShow Gadgets -- Your First SideShow Gadgets -- Building the RSS Aggregator -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Simple Content Format -- Sending Content to a SideShow Device.

Components of a SideShow Gadget -- SCF Elements -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Interacting with SideShow Devices -- Querying the Number of SideShow Gadgets Installed -- Querying the Capabilities of Devices -- Handling SideShow Devices Events -- Sending Notifications to SideShow Devices -- Summary -- Chapter 10: SideShow Project -- The Surveillance SideShow Gadget -- Creating the Surveillance Camera Server -- Creating the Surveillance Camera Client -- Testing the Client and Server -- Sending Images to a SideShow -Enabled Device -- Tweaking the UI -- Packaging the Camera SideShow Gadget -- Well -Behaved SideShow Gadgets -- Summary -- Index.