Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX (COM) and Silverlight
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0672329689 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After reading the book, a web developer/designer will be confident enough to start developing gadgets for Windows Vista Sidebar. The book will be a tutorial to design and develop a gadget. The later sections will have solid examples for instant results. In short, the book will tell how to do everything with Sidebar Gadgets using solid, unique examples. These gadgets are small, single-purpose applications, such as clocks, calendars, games, RSS notifiers, search tools, stock tickers, etc, that reside on the Windows desktop and on the Windows Sidebar. It will provide ready-to-use samples using .NET, XML, CSS and AJAX. Brief outline: " Brief background on Gadgets " Define architecture, design consideration and implementation to give a clear view to the developer " Step by step, create a useful Gadget sample "My Blogs" " Elaborate the architecture design constraint and implementation details for the sample " Detail the standard practices " Recheck the gadget created for standard practices " Improvise and Improve with compare and contrast " Add advanced samples with .NET, AJAX and XHTML.. The beginner portion of the book shows an overview of the subject with the design pattern, the architecture and implementation details. A one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect
. The book will be a tutorial to design and develop a gadget. Brief outline: " Brief background on Gadgets " Define architecture, design consideration and implementation to give a clear view to the developer " Step by step, create a useful Gadget sample "My Blogs" " Elaborate the architecture design constraint and implementation details for the sample " Detail the standard practices " Recheck the gadget created for standard practices " Improvise and Improve with compare and contrast " Add advanced samples with .NET, AJAX and XHTML. From the Back Cover A one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perf
He has received numerous awards for his articles on Windows Vista and Sidebar Gadgets and is a frequent contributor to Windows Vista Magazine and Code Project website. To visit his Vista Gadget blog, go to innovatewithgadgets.. Rajesh Lal is an author, technology evangelist, and solutions engineer specializing in web technologies. He has a master’s
Good book on Gadgets, beginning examples too complex Adele Drake Creating gadgets for Vista is fairly complicated so it's great to have this book to guide you through it. The book would greatly benefit from a much simpler first example before adding toolbar options and other more complex features in javascript that make it hard to follow the basic flow of the code. Still probably the best book out there on the topic and I was able to create a gadget based on what I learned from this book.. "Great Book" according to Erik E. Nascimento. I recommend this book for everyone does not have any information about vista gadgets. Your simple language and good samples, it's easy to learn, how gadgets works and how made your own. Richard T. Kingslan said Not just another boring Technical book This one is FUN!. Typically, technical books have a problem of being dry. They lack style, any sense of enjoyment (seriously - you don't read one to stay awake at night) and are typically read because you either have a problem with the subject at hand, or you've been tossed under the bus by your boss - who promised you could be an expert in three days. And, he told you Monday was the deadline - and it's Friday afternoon.Now and then, you come across a book that IS fun, an