The using of this gadget allows a user to keep up with the latest CodeProject's featured articles published at the CodeProject's web site as if a user has manually opened the CodeProject's main page with a regular web browser. The following gadget will automatically refresh in a certain interval of time specified by a user to render those new featured articles currently exhibited on the CodeProject's main web page. In this article we'll introduce the implementation of a simple lightweight Windows Vista/Seven desktop gadget that allows to preview the featured articles ever published and announced at the CodeProject's main page. Developers with experience authoring webpages will find the process of creating a gadget very familiar.' - Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN): Developing Gadgets For Windows Vista/7 Sidebar 'Gadgets are lightweight HTML and script-based applications that provide the abillity to derive and present information or functionality from a variety of sources, such as local applications and controls, or websites and services. Another valuable purpose of this paper and the code being uploaded is to demonstrate how to easily create and deploy a Windows Vista/7 sidebar gadget based on the example of creating the gadget mentioned above. Hope that, the following gadget will be extremely useful for a large audience of readers and members contributing and reading articles once ever published at the CodeProject's web site. The Windows Vista/7 sidebar gadget introduced in this article is the most an up-to-date web application that can be used to preview the featured contents once published at the CodeProject's web site by its members and contributors.

This article is one of the articles in the series that demonstrate the development of the CodeProject's foundation miscellaneous tools and API's that can be easily and conveniently used for an offline articles editing and previewing, showing a member's reputation statistics, using CodeProject's search engine to find articles about the topics a reader is interested in, etc.

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