The Outlook Gadgets are here!!!

I am excited to announce that the Outlook 2007 gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar have just been posted to the web! Check them out:

· Outlook Upcoming Appointments – shows you your upcoming appointments.

· Outlook Tasks – shows you your tasks and flagged mail all in one place, plus gives you an easy way to enter tasks, just like the To-Do Bar.

Now you can have all of the To-Do Bar goodness right alongside all of your other Vista gadgets.

Enjoy!

-Melissa

P.S. Since this was first posted, new versions of the gadgets have been put up on gallery.live.com (12/14/06)

Check 'em out!

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 04, 2006
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• Anonymous
  December 04, 2006
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• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Sorry guys - for the moment, the gadgets are US only. -Melissa

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Me likey! This is good stuff-- I especially like being able to move to a "large" mode that shows more appts/tasks. Well done!

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  No good for me as it reads the data in the local PST file insteead of my Exchange account :(

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Well, even when they are US only, they should still be able to cope with different settings for localised display of dates, as that setting can be changed on US versions of Windows as well.

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Over on Melissa's & Ryan's blog they announce the Outlook 2007 Sidebar gadgets for download:  Outlook

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Found a solution (just to get the taste of it) for german vista users:

• rename .gadget to .zip
• unzip
• add ".Gadget" to unzipped gadget folder name
• inside gadget folder: rename "en-Us" folder to "de-De" (or make a copy and rename) [- translate de-De/js/strings.js and text in de-De/*.html ;) ]
• move gadget folder to "C:ProgrammeWindows SidebarGadgets"
• add gadgets to sidebar

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Why don't the gadget's poll Outlook if Outlook isn't open?

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2006
  Tom, the gadgets only poll when Outlook is running so that Outlook can shutdown properly when you don't want Outlook running.  If the gadgets were to keep polling, Outlook would have to keep running so that new appointments and items would be downloaded from the server. The gadgets do remember a number of upcoming appointments so that even if Outlook isn't running, future meetings and appointments will be displayed.

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2006
  very cool. I'm using them both. Shame they don't show something (or just disappear) if Outlook isn't running (rather than saying "Outlook not running") Also... any chance of a WLM (or Communicator) gadget so we can dock that (and I'll add my 2c for a OneNote gadget as well)

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2006
  Actually, if Outlook has been running, then the gadgets will still show your tasks and appointments - from your last session of Outlook. (The gadget doesn't talk to servers, so if someone sends you a meeting request, and Outlook isn't running, the gadget doesn't show the new meeting request.) To see this behavior in action, run Outlook, load the gadget, wait for the gadget to start showing appointments, then turn off Outlook. -Melissa

• Anonymous
  December 12, 2006
  Announcing the release of the first "WPF/E" CTP Adobe Illustrator XAML exporter for "WPF/E" The Outlook

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2006
  I want to retrieve my Office Live email from another email service.  How do you set up email forwarding from Office Live Basic email?  What is the POP mail server name?

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2006
  I find the Sidebar gadgets in Windows Vista appealing. I never thought this would happen. I've looked...

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2006
  I find the Sidebar gadgets in Windows Vista appealing. I never thought this would happen. I've looked

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2007
  It would be great to see support for task folders other than the "To-Do list" in the future.

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2007
  Colin, The To-Do List includes all task folders and all flagged mail and flagged contacts in the default store. -Melissa

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2007
  I just came to know that you guys have taken the stupidest decision of replacing the IE-based HTML engine with the Word one. Goodbye Outlook.

• Anonymous
  January 31, 2007
  How can i see my Gmail calendar? I am subscribed to it in Outlook as an Internet Calendar? Would i have to change some code?

• Anonymous
  February 01, 2007
  GCRya, You can subscribe to your GCal by going to Tools -> Account Settings -> Internet Calendars | New; and pasting your Private iCal URL you obtained from GCal. -can

• Anonymous
  March 01, 2007
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• Anonymous
  March 22, 2007
  The Outlook Upcoming Appointments Gadget Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to make this gadget read the contents of another folder besides the personal folder when gathering calendar data. It appears it shows only the upcoming appointments for calendars that have their data saved in the personal folder or it only reads the default calendar. I have internet calendars that are updated once a week with new appointments for me. Was wondering if I could get this gadget to read the data for these? It would appear the reading of the appointments occurs here in the javascript?: var session = application.Session; var folder = session.GetDefaultFolder(9); var items = folder.Items; Any ideas/insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2007
  The task gadget is gone from the gallery. Will it come back or is it gone forever? http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=98a101eb-2fc6-4c06-866c-14a6f5e05ab9&l=1

• Anonymous
  April 26, 2007
  Craven, The gadget is back! Here is an updated link: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=ef27c368-814f-49d5-8167-603dfec628cd&l=1 -Melissa

• Anonymous
  June 28, 2007
  <a href='http://www.desksware.com'>PlainSight Desktop Calendar</a> is much better. At least, it does not need start Outlook first.

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 06, 2007
  I would like to see today and all my appts and tasks for today, then I would like to see tomorrow with all the tasks and appts for it.

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2007
  I would really love to see Outlook's calendar itself incorporated into a gadget, instead of the calendar gadget we have now. The appointments is great, but let's have the whole calendar!

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2007
  I have a problem. Outlook is running and Appointment gadget is running but I get "No upcoming appointments".  And my calendar clearly shows I have appointments. Any ideas?

• Anonymous
  December 06, 2007
  Chris, Does your To-Do Bar show any appointments? The To-Do Bar and the gadget both pull appointments from your default calendar, and should be showing the same thing. -Melissa

• Anonymous
  January 17, 2008
  I have the same problem as chris.  My to-do bar shows my appointments but the gadget still says no data availible...any help?

• Anonymous
  February 20, 2008
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