The first part of the installations is to download and install the release version of the Sideshow gadgets for Media Center (64bit and 32bit), when I ran the install it told me I needed the Sideshow Managed Runtime 1.0 which can be download from Microsoft. Once I had the Runtime installed I could install the sideshow gadgets
Then I install the Sideshow Developer Preview on my phone by downloading the update from here
and copying WindowsSideShowForWindowsMobile.CAB to my phone and running
the install, then I had to pair up the phone with the PC via Bluetooth.
I could then go to the Sideshow control panel in Windows and enable the
Media Center gadgets.
Once everything was installed I ran the Sideshow application and
connect to the host PC. On the Media Center gadgets I could choose
whether to connect to my log in on the Media Center machine or an
Extender session.
I did have some trouble with the running of the gadgets, sometimes
the gadgets would not pull the information back from the host machine
and occasionally it would restart Media Center so I would say it's not
100% stable yet but once I had it all up and running I found the
gadgets were usefu
In this video I take a look at some of the features of the gadgets
including Now Playing, browsing the guide data, playing music and
selecting pictures
Note: This was done with the standard version of Media Center and not the TV Pack version which may not work with Sideshow