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Vista Gadget Not Rendering

I have tried using a couple of my projects as Vista Gadgets but all I get in them is the Silverlight download graphic even fo a simple RSS news reader. Any ideas?
[163 byte] By [MikeGannotti] at [2008-1-29]
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# 1

Odd, if you aleady have Silverlight installed you shouldn't see that.

What was the name of the project and your user name so we can have a look at it?

Also don't suppose you could take a screenshot of the gasget displaying the graphic? You could email it to puff.nospam@microsoft.com (removing .nospam).

AndyS at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
# 2
User name is MikeGannotti and I tried it with SharePointMultiBlogFeeds, SimpleMSNNewsForGadget, VistaGadgetTest, and MikeBlogFeed. I am running Vista 64 bit as well
MikeGannotti at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
# 3
As an FYI I just exported one to a home machine running Vista 32 bit and it rendered (kind of ugly as has scrolling but is rendering)
MikeGannotti at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
# 4

Ah, the problem is Silverlight and 64bit isn't so great a combination, and isn't supported by Silverlight, if you run the 32bit IE on Vista 64 everything is fine however the sidebar runs the native IE 64 bit. There is a 32bit version of the Sidebar which you can find at

Code Snippet
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe

The scroll bars is our bug though, at the moment we are working on making sure the Silverlight blocks resize correctly which many of them don't do at the moment.

AndyS at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
# 5

You could also set your sidebar to load the 32bit version by default the registery key for it is at:

Code Snippet
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Sidebar

You need to change that to point to the 32bit Sidebar, I'm running a 32bit OS so can't test this so the above comes at no guarantee. Only do it if your comfortable editing the registry.

AndyS at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
# 6

That did it! :-)

Thanks

Glad to hear about the resize work.

Thanks!!

MikeGannotti at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
# 7
Will there be (and if so when) a version of Silverlight that works in x64?
CorySmith at 2007-9-25 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
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