Gadgets which take advantage of Windows Presentation Foundation can be written and tested on both Windows Vista and XP or Server 2003 with the necessary tool set. Below is a list of required and recommended development tools which could be helpful during the process of writing Gadgets. Developers should be familiar with Gadget basics, Visual Studio and .NET Framework languages such as Visual Basic, C# or Managed C++.
Gadget packages contain a special file – a manifest, which contains various Gadget-specific properties such as name, type, author, description and more. While the actual format of the gadget.xml file is similar to the one used in usual DHTML-based Gadgets, there are two notable differences – the type of the host required, and an optional wpfClass attribute. The latter is used when Gadgets have to load a WPF executable or control (class) library.
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