Creating and Deploying SideShow Applications

You create and deploy SideShow gadget applications on a Windows Vista personal computer. There is no means to place any active content on the target device over and above the Simple Content Format descriptions of the pages that are to be displayed on it. Simple Content Format descriptions are expressed in Extensible Markup Language (XML). We will consider the content of these descriptions in detail in the section titled SideShow Content and Endpoints later in this chapter.

A SideShow gadget application can be written in managed or unmanaged code; for the sake of consistency, you will create your SideShow application using managed code and C#. You can create a SideShow gadget application on the personal ...

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