Touch screen are great and we’ve seen their use on phone and slates
but sometimes these screens still just are not big enough. For those
who desire bigger touch screens, Microsoft surface may be the
answer. Microsoft surface has been around a while and there have
been significant changes with version 2.0. Version 2.0 introduces new
functionality and support for more compact hardware. A glance at the Microsoft Surface team web site reveals some incredibly interesting uses for the technology.
The samples provided are a great introduction to writing code for the platform. VB versions of all the samples have been created and they provide a introduction to what is possible.
To develop Surface applications using VB requires installation of a few prerequisites:
You can now start up Visual Studio and the two surface templates should appear for Visual Basic as well as the existing two C# surface templates. This is another technology that is now targetable by VB developers and that utilizes the VB Core functionality.
Enjoy….
The samples provided are a great introduction to writing code for the platform. VB versions of all the samples have been created and they provide a introduction to what is possible.
To develop Surface applications using VB requires installation of a few prerequisites:
- VS2010 SP1 (Required because VB is using VB Core feature)
- WP7 SDK Tools (Installs the XNA components )
- Surface 2.0 Runtime and SDK (The important surface tools)
- VB Surface 2.0 Samples
You can now start up Visual Studio and the two surface templates should appear for Visual Basic as well as the existing two C# surface templates. This is another technology that is now targetable by VB developers and that utilizes the VB Core functionality.
Enjoy….
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