Ink, Windows Touch, and Other Tablet PC Development

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• Welcome!!!

  Eliot - MSFTMSFTSaturday, October 25, 2008 3:59 PM
  Hello and welcome to the "Ink, Multi-Touch, and Other Tablet PC Development" forum.
  
  This is the place where you can post questions, tricks, tips, and other observations about creating applications that specifically take advantage of natural input methods of ink and touch. Whether you are setting up a development environment, integrating handwriting into an existing application, or creating a state-of-the-art multi-touch client application from the ground up, we will strive to ensure that both other members of the developer community as well as product team members from Microsoft are pointing you to the correct resources and helping out where applicable.
  
  Some resources that you should know about immediately:
  
  

  • The Windows Developer Center on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/windows) contains pages dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. From the home page, click Technologies, and then click Mobile PC.
  • In addition, the Windows Developer Center contains resources specific to Tablet and Touch Technology in the Learn page, including How-Do-I videos and MS Learning webcasts.
  • The developer center contains a number of hands-on labs dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. The labs--written in C++, C#, and Visual Basic .NET--range from getting started to advanced pen data manipulation.

  You can find the Tablet and Touch SDK documentation in the MSDN Library:
  

  • All conceptual topics are grouped together under the Tablet PC Development Guide. This includes native and managed conceptual information.
  • All of the native reference documentation is located under the Tablet PC COM Library Reference node.
  • The reference documentation for managed APIs is located in the following .NET Framework namespaces:
  • Microsoft.Ink (general ink functionality)
  • Microsoft.Ink.TextInput (Tablet PC Input Panel)
  • Microsoft.StylusInput (RealTimeStylus implementation)
  • Microsoft.StylusInput.PluginData (Plugin data for RealTimeStylus)
  • System.Windows.Ink (WPF implementation)
  • System.Windows.Ink.AnalysisCore (base classes for ink analysis in WPF)
  • In addition, the System.Windows.Controls namespace contains the InkCanvas and the InkPresenter classes.

  This forum is NOT for end-user questions or hardware reviews. It is for questions about developing applications using Tablet and Touch technologies. Questions that are out of scope will be redirected to appropriate forums or newsgroups.
  
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