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Tablet PC .NET Application Development Webcasts

Join us for the first webcast in the series entitled "Tablet and Mobile PC Applications Development", designed for .NET Developers. This session focuses on the InfiNotes Note Taking Framework built by Agilix Labs Inc. as an extension to the Tablet PC SDK and Visual Studio .Net Development environment. Agilix InfiNotes is a collection of .NET controls that add rich ink note-taking functionality to new and existing applications. Simply drag the control from the toolbox and begin adding digital ink to your application immediately! You'll be amazed at how quickly you can develop ink note-taking features in your .NET application. InfiNotes Standard Edition is available free from http://www.infinotes.com and should be installed on your development environment along with the Tablet PC SDK, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/tabletpc. (You do not need a Tablet PC to develop Tablet apps, this can be done right from your existing Windows development environment).

Presenters: Michelle McKelvey, ISV architect Mobile Platforms Division, Microsoft;   Bernd Helzer, senior architect, Agilix Labs Inc.

Event Date: March 18, 2005

Event Time: 10:00:00 AM PST

Duration: 1 hour

Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:15 AM by mikehall

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D. Philippe said:

Mike: If you were going to build a great new tablet PC from scratch whose primary market would be home users and students (i.e., not professionals), what OS would you pick? CE, XP (commercial), XP (media) or XP embedded?
# March 16, 2005 1:36 PM

Mike said:

Now that's an interesting question, and my answer is "it depends"...

If I always had internet connectivity, and could get access to the corporate network or my home network while "on the move" then I would suggest that a Windows CE based "RDP Tablet" would be ideal, longer battery life, wired/wireless networking, touch screen (or digitizer) and RDP application to get to my "real" desktop PC - perhaps even a local browser so I can browse the web without needing to connect to my work or home network.

This sounds a lot like "Smart Display" to me, perhaps a product before it's time ;O)

Otherwise, since I don't have network coverage 100% of the time I would go for a Windows XP Professional Tablet PC Edition device - this gives the best of both worlds, "Laptop" type functionality for when you need a keyboard (writing code, debugging operating systems or applications) or a tablet style device when you need to take notes in meetings (or play tic-tac-toe - isn't OneNote ideal for this?) or browse the web.

Does that help ?

- Mike
# March 16, 2005 9:13 PM
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