Vista Sidebar Gadget for MS CRM

Hi,
Recently I was looking for any Vista sidebar gadgets that would show MS CRM elements or list of data like Accounts, Contacts or Activites.

I found an MSDN article (Monitoring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Queues with a Windows Sidebar Gadget) on the same that explains creating a MS CRM Gadget for Vista sidebar and also a couple of gadgets on Vista gadget library and tried CRM Watchman, which is really good.

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=fc9cedb3-6339-4333-8a96-e5624bcafd74&bt=1&pl=1
Download the gadget by following the above link

Enter CRM Server name or IP address and your credentials.

You will see a list of all Activites in CRM, clicking on them takes you to the activity view in browser.

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