Silverlight 2 Sidebar Gadget
silverlight, windows-desktop-gadgets, windows-vista
Solution
It seems with the release version of Silverlight 2 the source parameter changed and has to be a URI - see this thread from the Silverlight forums: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/30968/99824.aspx
Problem
How do you display a Silverlight 2.0 application in a Vista Sidebar gadget? Whenever I load a gadget with the standard Silverlight 2 object tag, I get the no-silverlight default content instead of the app. So, what's the trick to allowing it to run? This is how I am currently trying to pull it off: ``` <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Unicode" /> <title>Silverlight Test</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0; width: 130px; } </style> </head> <body> <object data="data:application/x-silverlight," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="source" value="GTest.xap"/> <param name="background" value="transparent" /> <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="2.0.31005.0" /> <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" /> <param name="windowless" value="true" /> Get Silverlight </object> </body> </html> ``` Is there a setting I can use in IE that affects the sidebar so it will allow Silverlight to execute? Even if I can get it working just on my computer, that would be a good start.