I am a UI specialist at HP. This just means I find bells and whistles more attractive than bits and bytes.
Take a look at my recent MSDN blog post to see how you can get around the common issues related to .NET development of Vista Sidebar gadgets. Don't want to write registry access code in javascript? Can't figure out how to uninstall your .NET based gadget? Read on... http://blogs.msdn.com/markh... ......
I just posted a somewhat lengthy article on my MSDN blog covering Avalon and 3D graphics. I got a little bored yesterday and this is what happens. In a nutshell, I created a mesh exporter for MilkShape that will output the mesh in XAML format that you can then load using Avalon.
http://blogs.msdn.com/markhsch/archive/2005/08/24/455791.aspx
Why oh why does it not work? I've said that so many times, but for the life of me cannot figure this one out. I thought I'd just go and play a little with Region objects for controls. I basically use 3 images with a defined transparency color and generate Region objects from them. I thought it would be a simple matter of being able to set the Region on my custom control depending on the state of the mouse (MouseEnter, MouseLeave, etc...). So, if the mouse enters the control, I do a good old this.Region ......