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As addendum to my previous post Erasing Ink in Silverlight 2 I want to show how to enable back-of-pen erasing for users with a compatible stylus device (e.g. on a Tablet PC or with an external Graphics Tablet). The key that enables this scenario is the
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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
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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
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Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at the Oredev conference in Malmo, Sweden. Thank you also for all the great questions and feedback after the sessions - much appreciated! I have attached my slide decks to this post for those who are interested.
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Just a quick note: I am on my way to Oredev conference . I'll be presenting the following two talks there: Introduction to application development with WPF and Silverlight for TabletPCs and UMPCs Advanced application development with WPF and Silverlight
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If your application needs to find out at runtime whether or not it runs on a Tablet PC, it is recommended to call GetSystemMetrics() and pass in the value 'SM_TABLETPC'. But what does it actually mean for a computer to be a Tablet PC? Is that determined
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Data binding in WPF provides a great way for applications to present and interact with data. Elements can be bound to data from a variety of data sources - for example XML files. I have put together a sample that uses data binding to retrieve a collection
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If you are writing (or maintaining) and application that uses handwriting recognition, please be aware of a subtle behavior difference between XP and Vista when coercing the recognition result to a Factoid (or an input scope or a word list). This may
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If you are developing applications that use an InkPicture control and you plan to deploy your product to customers running Windows XP desktop OS (i.e. not the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition), please read on: The TabletPC controls (InkPicture and InkEdit)
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Did you know that the Windows Vista SDK contains a shape recognition engine? It's part of the InkAnalysis framework that provides APIs for handwriting recognition, ink parsing and shape recognition. This framework enables some really cool scenarios, especially
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Over the past few years of developing apps using the TabletPC platform, I came across a couple of gotchas that are not exactly obvious to solve or workaround (at least they were not obvious to me). I figured I should blog about those and the respective
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With the InkCanvas element in WPF you can create stunning inking experiences for TabletPC users (mouse users can play along, too!). Several very cool scenarios can be enabled just by writing markup - without any additional code behind. Here is a first
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WPF 3.5 includes an exciting new feature: Viewport2DVisual3D. It makes building interactive 3D experiences very easy and is nicely integrated with the rest of the WPF Platform. I have used this feature to write a new version of the "Ink Postcard" sample
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