Windows Vista Sideshow | Charles

Epsi

Every time I hear a guy from Microsoft say "It's a native API" I cry a little inside. I get that maybe people might want to use this stuff from Native code, but yeh... this is a Vista-only API! Are we ever going to see a really big managed push from Microsoft, or is every new technology going to come as COM first, then slowly get rolled into some System. namespace in the second version?

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

It's too bad this technology isn't out on the market today.

C#rocks

22:50

LOL!!!

mawcc
Make it so

I'm not yet sure if I would spend additional money on a Sideshow enabled Laptop. It seems that most of the functionality is also available on a Smartphone, so the advantage of not having to boot up the laptop is not so compelling anymore.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I can't see the advantages of the thing. Really. I own a smartphone, why should I have a sideshow enabled laptop?

It seems to me as if this thing has not a long life.

Correction: Using the smart device to control the PC is cool. For those szenarios the thing is great.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Epsi wrote:
Every time I hear a guy from Microsoft say "It's a native API" I cry a little inside. I get that maybe people might want to use this stuff from Native code, but yeh... this is a Vista-only API! Are we ever going to see a really big managed push from Microsoft, or is every new technology going to come as COM first, then slowly get rolled into some System. namespace in the second version?

Aaaarg. Native API ... I'm crying with you.

dahat

I suddenly want one of those mini LCD’s and control pads he had on top of his monitor.

CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann

I read somewhere that they will be creating a .NET wrapper to expose the API's to us .NET developers.

n4cer

mawcc and littleguru, there's no reason why you couldn't get a Smartphone that also runs Sideshow when available. I haven't watched this interview yet, but MS has mentioned elsewhere that they are also targeting phones and other mobile devices to run Sideshow. IIRC, they mention this in this interview at 10.
http://on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/2890/