Microsoft Weather Gadget

[Guest]

There are several Microsoft documentations that state that there is a Weather
Gadget available. I've looked in the gallery but cannot find any. Has this
now been taken away? I've done a web search and found a few gadgets but I am
not comfortable installing since they could pose a security risk. Does
anyone have good recommendations for a library of gadgets for vista? The
ones on Vista and the website are a little lame. The stock ticker is good
but i wanted something for the home e.g. weather at my zip code. THe seattle
traffic monitor is good but I don't live in WA.

 

[Mike Williams]

There are several Microsoft documentations that state that there is a Weather
Gadget available. I've looked in the gallery but cannot find any. Has this
now been taken away? I've done a web search and found a few gadgets but I am
not comfortable installing since they could pose a security risk. Does
anyone have good recommendations for a library of gadgets for vista? The
ones on Vista and the website are a little lame. The stock ticker is good
but i wanted something for the home e.g. weather at my zip code. THe seattle
traffic monitor is good but I don't live in WA.

It disappeared in recent released builds. There were many problems with
it, so I don't know what the plans are for returning it.

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

We have additional gadgets coming in the next set of beta bits; I hope you
like them. It would also be great to see more folks outside of Microsoft
making cool gadgets.

-Bruce

 

[Zapper]

Bruce, thanks for being an MSFT presence here on the boards...

Any idea when these "next beta bits" will be put up on the web? I have
sideshow disabled due to the lack of usefull(for me) gadgets.
Are there going to be a stream of them(like Yahoo/Konfabulator)? Weekly
additions(ala Google desktop), or at random times?

 

[John Barnes]

I second that. Thanks for your contributions.

We have additional gadgets coming in the next set of beta bits; I hope you
like them. It would also be great to see more folks outside of Microsoft
making cool gadgets.

-Bruce

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Bruce, remember that this is the CPP ng, not TechBeta. Are you sure there
will be beta bits for the CPP folks? They are starting to salivate.

 

[Michael Cecil]

We have additional gadgets coming in the next set of beta bits; I hope you
like them. It would also be great to see more folks outside of Microsoft
making cool gadgets.

Be nice to see a good WMP controller like that one by the Skin Factory
from last year.

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

Colin gently reminded me that I posted this to the public newsgroup, not the
private beta newsgroup - so just to be clear, I have no idea if there will
be any more public bits released before RTM. If there aren't, then my
apologies for getting your hopes up.

-Bruce

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

We have a relatively small set of gadgets that will be "in the box" at RTM -
you've already seen most of them. We're going to use our site at
http://gallery.microsoft.com to share more gadgets, both 'official'
Microsoft gadgets and gadgets submitted by individuals both inside and
outside Microsoft.

I don't know if our plans include any particular release schedule for
web-downloads; I'm sure the folks who worry about that stuff will do what
they can to make it a pleasant and exciting experience. Personally, I'm
hoping we get a good group of gadget developers out in the world producing
cool gadgets.

-Bruce

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

The "Sgt Schultz" approach is always a good policy...

 

[jonah]

There are several Microsoft documentations that state that there is a Weather
Gadget available. I've looked in the gallery but cannot find any. Has this
now been taken away? I've done a web search and found a few gadgets but I am
not comfortable installing since they could pose a security risk. Does
anyone have good recommendations for a library of gadgets for vista? The
ones on Vista and the website are a little lame. The stock ticker is good
but i wanted something for the home e.g. weather at my zip code. THe seattle
traffic monitor is good but I don't live in WA.

www.bbc.co.uk

Got a weather gadget, had one for years, works in any browser, just
have to put your postcode in for a full local 5 day forecast on RSS
also if you wish.

Don't work for zip codes though

Seriously though when Vista is released I bet the beeb will be doing
gadgets for the UK market, they are good at that sort of thing.

Jonah

 

[Bernie]

Is there an SDK for this?

 

[Mike Williams]

Is there an SDK for this?

I googled "vista sidebar gadgets".

2nd link provided is this whitepaper:
http://microsoftgadgets.com/Sidebar/DevelopmentOverview.aspx

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

http://microsoftgadgets.com/build to get you started
http://microsoftgadgets.com/forums for questions

-Bruce