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“The Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta is a set of controls, APIs, templates, sample applications and documentation currently available for Surface developers.

With the .NET Framework 4.0, Windows Presentation Framework 4.0 (WPF), and this toolkit, Windows Touch developers can quickly and consistently create advanced multitouch applications for Windows Touch PCs.

This toolkit also provides a jump-start for Surface application developers to prepare for the next version of Microsoft Surface. Use it to take advantage of the innovative Surface technology and user interface to develop your own rich and intuitive multitouch experiences for a variety of Windows Touch devices.”

Links:

• Original post - Lunch: Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta
• Download - Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta
• Video - Introduction to the toolkit on Channel 9

Enjoy!

Some useful links:

• MSDN Download links
• ScottGu’s blog post
• Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC Release (February 2010) and Silverlight development by Tim Heuer

Enjoy!

I’ve updated the behavior available in the Expression Community gallery adding Multi-Touch manipulation (translation, rotation and zoom) and inertia effects using code from the Surface Manipulations and Inertia Sample for Microsoft Silverlight.

To enable Multi-Touch in your code simply download the behavior from here, add the project “MultiTouch.Behaviors.Silverlight” to a Visual Studio solution and then enable the gestures in XAML:

<UserControl x:Class="SilverlightMultiTouch.MainPage"
...
xmlns:interactivity="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity; assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"
xmlns:behaviors="clr-namespace:MultiTouch.Behaviors.Silverlight; assembly=MultiTouch.Behaviors.Silverlight"
...
>

<Canvas>
  <Image Source="Images/Desert.jpg">
     <interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
         <behaviors:MultiTouchManipulationBehavior InertiaEnabled="True" TouchRotateEnabled="True" TouchTranslateEnabled="True" TouchScaleEnabled="True"/>
     </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
  </Image>

  <Image Source="Images/Jellyfish.jpg">
     <interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
         <behaviors:MultiTouchManipulationBehavior InertiaEnabled="True" TouchRotateEnabled="True" TouchTranslateEnabled="True" TouchScaleEnabled="True"/>
     </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
  </Image>
</Canvas>

The MultiTouchManipulationBehavior also contains some dependency properties (TouchRotateEnabled, TouchTranslateEnabled, TouchScaleEnabled and InertiaEnabled) to enable the corresponding gestures.

The example contains Multi-Touch manipulations applied to some Image controls and a Smooth streaming player of the Silverlight Media Framework.

I’ve also posted to CodePlex a sample using WPF 4 based on the article “Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch“ by Jaime Rodriguez.

Hope this helps and Happy Silverlighting!

Lot of news this week!

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available for download here, Jeff Beehler has posted some useful info about this “go live” release.

The new Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release is also available on Codeplex featuring Visual Studio 2010 support and various improvements on existing components (like drag-and-drop for items controls).

Read these posts by Tim Heuer and Jeff Wilcox for more details and enjoy!

In this excellent article, Rob Relyea describes the new features of XAML planned to ship in .NET 4.

Click here to read the future plans for Delphi Prism, by Nick Hodges.

Click here to read the original post by Scott Guthrie.

Download link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141184&clcid=0×409

Thanks to this post by Marco Cantù, I’ve found two interesting articles by Justin James about the future of the Embarcadero/CodeGear development environments:

• CodeGear: Working hard to rejuvenate its legacy;
• CodeGear: Extending the Borland legacy to Ruby and PHP developers.

Justin states that ”CodeGear’s .NET products are expanding in new directions, which include RIA development and targeting other platforms (through systems such as Mono)”.

Will we be able to write rich internet applications using Delphi and targeting both .NET and Mono platforms?

Shawn Wildermuth’s new blog site is on-line: you can find it at http://www.wildermuth.com.

I recommend you to take a look at his article 10 Things You Should Know About Silverlight.

I’ve prepared this Silverlight 2 Beta 2 solution based on the example described in the official documentation.

You can try it just following these simple steps:

• open the solution using Visual Studio 2008;
• deploy the Wcf Service “DuplexService” to http://localhost/DuplexService;
• copy the included crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\;
• run the project “DuplexClientWeb” from within Visual Studio or deploy it to IIS.

Enjoy!