May 29th, 2009 — Surface, WPF, Windows 7
Man, It’s been a while since I’ve done an update here. I’ve been completely slammed working on a Kiosk project.
Anyway… I came across this today and thought I’d post up a quick update. It’s a great video from Channel9 where Jaime Rodriguez and Anson Tsao discuss the new Multi-touch capabilities that will be available in WPF 4 Beta 1.
March 12th, 2009 — Surface, WPF, WPF 3D
Found this today while looking at Virtual Earth integration. Sounds perfect.
InfoStrat.VE allows WPF and Microsoft Surface developers to take full advantage of Virtual Earth 3D with minimal overhead. Simply reference the dll, add a single VEMap control to your XAML, and you have a map! The control eliminates the Win32 Interop restrictions, so you can do everything with this VE control that you could do with any native WPF control, including:
October 14th, 2008 — Surface
According to Long Zheng @ IStartedSomething, Microsoft recently hinted at a consumer version of Surface in a recent survey. As if we didn’t have reason enough to be excited about the forthcoming Surface SDK
October 8th, 2008 — Surface, Windows 7
Microsoft is planning to release the Surface SDK at the upcoming Professional Developer Conference slated for late October
The ‘Developing for Microsoft Surface’ session will cover the Surface SDK and how it aligns with multi-touch developer roadmap for Windows 7 and WPF.
This session introduces the newly available Microsoft Surface SDK. Hear about the unique attributes of Microsoft Surface computing, dive into vision-based object recognition and core controls like ScatterView, and learn how the Surface SDK aligns with the multi-touch developer roadmap for Windows 7 and WPF. Additionally, learn how you can become a part of the expanding partner ecosystem for Microsoft Surface and leverage your existing investments in WPF and Visual Studio to build engaging end user applications. Attendees will receive access to the Microsoft Surface SDK.
May 15th, 2008 — Surface
Here’s a neat little Silverlight application that serves up interactive presentations about Microsoft products and services using Silverlight.
Learning Snacks are free, short, interactive presentations about popular topics and have been created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site.
July 18th, 2007 — Silverlight, Surface, Video, WPF
Steve Clayton of Geek In Disguise has put together a nice collection of videos from the Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference (WPC).
Topics include:
June 21st, 2007 — Surface
This is a nice piece on Microsoft Surface and multi-touch displays.
