Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/542667_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Today the Microsoft Surface team announced the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta. This toolkit includes controls, APIs, templates, documentation, and sample code for WPF on Windows Touch applications and a way for developers to prepare for the next version of Microsoft Surface. Luis Cabrera-Cordon from the Microsoft Surface team joined me to show us some of these controls including a building a Hello World app with ScatterView. More information including where to download the toolkit can be found at www.Surface.com. en Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:49 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:49 GMT Rev9 Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch This is a great start, but still after all these years Windows Tablets seem to be lacking momentum. They wil get left behind with the iPad and the rumored Google Tablet. 

 

Maybe we'll see Surface beats come to the tablet? We need more sweet apps like that. There are virtually none now.

posted by intelman

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634066910270000000 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:43:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634066910270000000 intelman Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch I agree that the tablet platform has languished for several years now, but there's hardly any way to say anything will get left behind by a rumoured Google tablet which even if it exists is a complete unknown - Google are perfectly capable of producing a piece of crap.

posted by Kevin Daly

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067177900000000 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:09:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067177900000000 Kevin Daly Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Does the actual multi-touch now finally work with Dell Latitude XT?

posted by zproxy

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067369150000000 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:28:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067369150000000 zproxy Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Thanks Surface team we finally get our tentacular hands on win7-certified multitouch controls Wink

 

Well, the first thing we notice as developers is that WPF performance is absolutely inadequate for serious graphics development.

That is old news, but somehow i was hoping Surface toolkit would bring some hard-core tweaks (like fixed fps rendering to get smooth animations and so on).
Nonetheless, apps on the Surface seem smoother than in Win7.. there must be something under the hood in the os (vista) configuration.

Then, the whole Direct2D topic and early samples on Win7 touch are there to confuse us... we want performance!!

 

When will we get a _clear_ roadmap of how MS graphics technologies are meant to work together?
(WPF,Direct2D,Direct3D,XNA...)

 

Related Tech-Off topic:

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/543754-WPF-Performance-for-serious-multi-touch-development/

 

Thank you!
Stefano Baraldi

http://www.onthetabletop.eu

posted by OnTheTableTop

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067742810000000 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:51:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067742810000000 OnTheTableTop Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch hi i need to know  what is the Resolution of the surface camera?

posted by asaher2088

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067752350000000 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:07:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634067752350000000 asaher2088 Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch The Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta will work on any Windows 7 Touch PC hardware. If the driver for the specific machine is properly written, the toolkit should work on top of that machine. Smiley

posted by LuisCabrera

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634069700350000000 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:13:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634069700350000000 LuisCabrera Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Microsoft Surface actually uses 5 infrared cameras, the image gets stitched together and reported through the Raw Image APIs to you. Take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee804751.aspx for more information.

 

Notice that the Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta obviously uses different input. It actually uses the input from the touch enabled PC (no cameras included).

thanks!

-Luis.

posted by LuisCabrera

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634069704030000000 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:20:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634069704030000000 LuisCabrera Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Luis,

 

The performance of Surface controls seems to be better than regular WPF controls.

May I ask how did you achieve it?

 

Thanks!

 

posted by ivan_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634073068170000000 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:46:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634073068170000000 ivan_ Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch I guess, I may NOT ask...

posted by ivan_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634075657880000000 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:43:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634075657880000000 ivan_ Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961
(Clarke's third law)

posted by LuisCabrera

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634245701510000000 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:09:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634245701510000000 LuisCabrera Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch @ivan_:Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961
(Clarke's third law)

posted by LuisCabrera

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634245701780000000 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:09:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634245701780000000 LuisCabrera Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Any idea how to solve this problem ?

posted by Moreno Borsalino

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634247444470000000 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:34:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634247444470000000 Moreno Borsalino Re: Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Added reference to microsoft.xna.framework.xact

posted by Moreno Borsalino

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634247663720000000 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:39:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch#c634247663720000000 Moreno Borsalino