In the spirit of the holiday season, I have created a little eCard using the Silverlight v1.0 SDK. Use the buttons to add ice skaters and falling snow to the scene :-) Have a wonderful Holiday and a happy New Year 2008! P.S. I am using the Silverlight...

WPF's InkCanvas element provides a lot of built-in functionality for several common, ink-related tasks like stylus gesture recognition, point and stroke erase, as well as the selection, resizing and moving of ink strokes. The key to those features is...

One of my favorite tools on the Tablet PC is the 'Snipping Tool'. I have been using it frequently since the early XP days (back then we shipped it seperately as a Power Toy). Now in Vista, it's part of the main OS and I find myself using it quite often...

I have received several question from folks about my earlier post on Ink Reflections in WPF . People were curious how to accomplish the same or a similar effect in Silverlight, in the absence of the VisualBrush object. Clearly, WPF's VisualBrush is...

To follow-up on my previous blog post and to complete the story about rendering ink onto pictures and saving the results as a bitmap file, I want to show how this is done in WPF. In WPF all rendering uses the pipeline - pictures, videos, ink, text...

Annotating pictures with handwriting or drawings is a fun and useful scenario for digital ink. In many cases the application user wants to create a new image file with the ink annotation "burnt" into the picture, so they can use the result of their work...