Vista SideShow Media Center Gadgets
Windows SideShow is a new technology that delivers information from your PC to a secondary display on two kinds of devices: those that are integrated into a computer, such as a small color display in a laptop lid; and those that are separate from a computer, such as a remote control or Windows Mobile phone.
While Sidebar is basically a Webpart, SideShow is managed code which means .NET code.
The Developers Preview SideShow for Windows Mobile devices was released in june 2008.
Unfortunately, a coding mistake meant that december 31st 2008 the Mobile code stopped working…
… just when the Media Center Gadgets were announced.
Oops.
With the error now corrected, Sideshow allows you to view settings, images and remote control Vista Media Center and Office applications (Outlook and PowerPoint 2007) from a Bluetooth connected WM5 or WM6+ device.
Some screenshots:
SideShow gadgets are available from Live Gallery and include System monitors (complete with Remote control options e.g. shutdown, sleep, reboot), Outlook and PowePoint Gadgets and even iTunes Remote.
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