Friday, August 27, 2010

Building Applications for MS Touch devices using Microsoft® Surface® Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta

To get started on this first go ahead and download the following 

Microsoft® Surface® Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=801907A7-B2DD-4E63-9FF3-8A2E63932A74&displaylang=en&displaylang=en 

Once you installed you will see the following Template .   Building Application for  Surface devices is same as Building Windows WPF Application .

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let is try creating sample application . Here I am going to use ScatterView control

The ScatterView control as a container for any other user interface (UI) element. When you place a UI element inside of a ScatterView control, that element automatically gains the ability to be moved, rotated, and resized using one or multiple touches.

 

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Here is the Result for the above XAML code in  MS Surface Simulator

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Please download MS Surface SDK and explore the more controls .

Nandri(Thanks)

SreenivasaRagavan.

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