Comment Feed for Developing for Microsoft Surface (pdc2008 on Channel 9)

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

kiriappeee — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:12:09 GMT

im a lil confused... i definitely cant afford a surface.. so i was using the simulator.. with mouse.. how come it doesnt behave like its real life counterpart? i thought the pictures would slide across the "surface" like it did in this video... can someone redirect me to a place where i can figure this out? even here is cool if its ok with the head people...

Re: Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

Tiago Andrade e Silva — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:17:15 GMT

Hi! The regex used was built from:

1. Find all important control instances (excludes app-defined styles): {[</]}{(Window|Button|ScrollViewer|ListBox)[> ]}

2. Replace with Surface version: \1s:Surface\2

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

Sven Vanoirbeek — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:28:31 GMT

Great video. I created a synopsis on my blog:Developing applications for Microsoft Surface isn’t that hard

Re: Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

alan.le — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:34:26 GMT

I figured out the regex used in the video.

{[</]}{(Window|Button|ScrollViewer|ListBox)[> ]}

\1s:Surface\2

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

nesher — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:25:44 GMT

Can I ask why are there 5 cameras and not 4? Because it is simple to divide rectangle in 4 parts, but not 5. Is there any special purpose for 5th camera? Or they are all equal?

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

alan.le — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:06:53 GMT

Hi,

What is the regex used in the video to replace the instances of the standard WPF controls to the Surface equivalents? That was really slick.

Thanks,
Alan

Re: Re: Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

rlevy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:45:37 GMT

We have APIs which expose the raw image reported by our cameras at ~60FPS. You can get this and process it however you like. The very first demo we did in the PDC session was showing an SDK sample which gets this image, flips it, and renders it on the screen.

For tags in particular though, the 2 types we provide out of the box (8-bit and 128-bit) are sufficient for most needs.

Re: Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

Tim Mustain — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:04:32 GMT

Click the Downloads link just above the comments :-)

Re: Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

nesher — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:09:38 GMT

Hi acuis,
No, MultiTouchVista SDK is not Surface SDK. Sorry if I made you think so.
What I wanted to say is that MultiTouchVista is a class library that will allow you to develop multitouch application. It has API like Surface API.

-rlevy, great session!!! I wish I could be there. Sadly you didn't showed how to use Vision system. Is it possible to develop custom tags?

Re: Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

rlevy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:19:42 GMT

Hey acuis - MultiTouchVista is not affiliated with Microsoft or Surface

The Surface SDK is being given to those who either attended our session or complete one of our 3 hands on labs (which will be open tomorrow). Also, if you were to order a developer Surface (order forms are now on surface.com), each one comes with 5 SDK licenses.

Please come by our booth in the Big Room tomorrow if you've got any more questions or want to chat!

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

Aditya Mani — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:20:06 GMT

nesher,

Is this an official comment from Microsoft?
Is the MultiTouchVista SDK project the same as Microsoft Surface SDK?

Can someone tell me where we can get a hold of the Sruface SDK. We were told we'd get it at the PDC this year...

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

nesher — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:55:53 GMT

If you interested in NUI technology, but for any reasons don't have access to Surface you can look at MultiTouchVista project on Codeplex. It is open source project that is similar to Surface SDK. It also has a device abstraction layer, so you can implement your own "input provider" to support your hardware.
Just visit http://www.codeplex.com/MultiTouchVista to download the bits. There is also a quick video tutorial of how to build your own application.
Also visit NUIGroup forum (http://nuigroup.com/forums) to communicate with other people who is interested in "changing the world" ;)

Re: Developing for Microsoft Surface

nesher — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:42:04 GMT

How to download this video? Silverlight video stream is dead slow and buffers after every second :(