{"id":13373,"date":"2010-07-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/07\/21\/no-you-cant-lock-a-gadget-to-the-top-of-the-sidebar\/"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T07:00:00","slug":"no-you-cant-lock-a-gadget-to-the-top-of-the-sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100721-00\/?p=13373","title":{"rendered":"No, you can&#039;t lock a gadget to the top of the sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/01\/922449.aspx\"> I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature<\/a>, I offer you this customer:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> My customer has created a Windows Vista sidebar gadget and wants to know if there&#8217;s a way to force this gadget to appear at the top of the sidebar and prevent the user from moving or removing it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I applaud this company for having written the most awesome sidebar gadget in the history of the universe. It&#8217;s so compelling that it should override the user&#8217;s preferences and force itself into the upper right corner of their screen in all perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p> Unfortunately, Windows was not prepared for a program as awesome as this, and there is no supported way to force a gadget into a particular position and prevent the user from moving or removing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another installment of I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature, I offer you this customer: My customer has created a Windows Vista sidebar gadget and wants to know if there&#8217;s a way to force this gadget to appear at the top of the sidebar and prevent the user from moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-13373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In another installment of I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature, I offer you this customer: My customer has created a Windows Vista sidebar gadget and wants to know if there&#8217;s a way to force this gadget to appear at the top of the sidebar and prevent the user from moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}