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We (the Microsoft Switzerland DPE team) have created a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget together with Futurecom that shows our upcoming events for developers, architects and IT-professionals. Events can be filtered by language, region and audience, so you will always just see the upcoming events that are of interest to you. A fly-out shows event details and links to the event registration site.

For me, this was a great way to get up to speed in real gadget development and brush up my JavaScript skills. Except for the slightly cumbersome debugging of JavaScript code, I find it a very flexible and powerful platform for the tiny utility-applications, that Gadgets are meant to be.

You can find and download the gadget on the Windows Live Gallery.

The Microsoft Switzerland Events Gadget in Action