Gadget Development

<p>Windows Vista as well as Windows 7 offer the possibility to develop so called sidebar gadgets. These pieces of software can be integrated into the desktop sidebar and were designed to offer small chunks of information like the actual weather, the time or calendar dates. Some of the gadgets need the have access to the internet to gain the information required by the service e.g. stock exchange rates. In this case it has to be possible to write gadgets that dynamically load and display the content of a given RSS feed.</p>