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After installing Longhorn, I was very disapointed with the number of sidebar tiles it included. As much as I need 1/8th of my screen taken up by a clock and a quick launch bar, I've kept it off until tonight. Tonight I went looking for some sample sidebar tiles before I started working on my own. There are a few samples in the Longhorn SDK, including the tile RSS viewer tile that was running during the PDC Keynote on Monday.
I've been doing all my development in Notepad since my packet of “the goods” was missing the Whidbey DVD (really need to email someone about that), but I've gotten a little bit done with the aid of these samples.
Hello World
French Flashcard
Contact Lookup
RSS Reader
One more tip: be very careful when testing your sidebar tiles. Since they run inside explorer.exe, a crash in the sidebar tile can cause explorer to crash. And since the sidebar starts with explorer and does not keep tabs on what crashed last, it's pretty easy to get stuck where explorer crashes everytime it starts. |