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I’m posting to remind everyone that we have a contest going on right now, put on by Microsoft Surface . The challenge is directed at creating applications that use the unique properties of the platform to address needs within the automotive, retail, healthcare,
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The great thing about developing on Microsoft Surface is that it's based on standard Microsoft tools and practices. If you're a .NET developer working with WPF or familiar with XNA , you can get up and running on Microsoft Surface relatively quickly.
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Hot on the heels of our Microsoft Surface SP1 release today , Devin Coldewey released this video and an article on CrunchGear . He was in our offices last week to get a sneak preview. Check it out. - Eric
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Here at Microsoft Surface we've been actively engaged with our Community of customers and nearly 180 Microsoft Surface Partners in 11 countries. And in response to the feedback we received, we developed Service Pack 1 to allow for faster and easier development
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Robert Levy and Doug Kramer will be presenting at Microsoft TechEd 2009 next Monday. This is an intermediate breakout session where they will go through some of the highlights and features in the upcoming release of SP1 for the Microsoft Surface platform.
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A long time ago when I worked on Windows 95, I wrote a version of the xeyes program mainly to play with the brand new SetWindowRegion function. I immediately got feedback that the eyes flickered when they were being updated. I fixed the problem and, even
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Microsoft Surface and education are like peanut butter and jelly. Microsoft Surface is like that with a number of markets, but there's something about kids interacting with a computer in a very accessible way that seems right. Microsoft worked with Infusion
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I got to spend a few minutes talking with Markus Egger from Code Magazine during PDC. You can listen in on that conversation at the end of their latest podcast: http://www.code-magazine.com/codecast/ Markus also told me that they just got their developer
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Right after our PDC presentation, Doug and I got whisked away by Carl and Richard from .NET Rocks . We found an empty room somewhere and chatted for about an hour. It was a blast talking to them about all sorts of Surface-related topics past, present,
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Robert just posted with a link to our PDC session. Check it out here . Here's the next part of my interviews with Vectorform. This time I sit down with just the developers to talk about what it's like to create applications on Surface. There's some discussion
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Just a quickOur presentation yesterday went amazingly well. The video and slides are now online here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC17/ I'm off to chat with more developers now! If you have questions about things from our presentation, please post
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I was recently at Vectorform, one of our Microsoft Surface partners. I got a group of designers and developers together to chat about developing for Surface. The video is below. The themes we find here aren't very different from developing for other Microsoft platforms. The tools like Expression Blend really make it simple for teams to work together developing applications for Surface.
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We were here late last night getting all the Surface units setup around the conference center and ensuring A/V stuff will be good for our session. This morning, we skipped the keynote and took the time to do one last run through of the presentation -
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To date, almost all of the public presentations we've given about Surface have focused on things from an end user perspective... demos showing the cool apps that our platform enables. The team has established a solid set of tools & procedures for
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It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post here about the Surface SDK because we’ve been incredibly busy over the past several months. This month is even busier though since we’re working hard to get ready for PDC. Our flights are booked and hotel
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