Exploring Multi-Touch in Silverlight

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One of the coolest new features in Silverlight 3 (and now 4) is the ability to add multi-touch capabilities to your web application. 

This capability opens-up all kinds of new possibilities – especially with the popular new multi-touch hardware systems available these days like the TouchSmart PC. 

Multi-touch support is becoming standard in the various Windows APIs and frameworks. Support is built into Windows 7 and the forthcoming Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4.  Microsoft Surface computer is also based on WPF as well, but includes custom extensions for its unique capabilities.

Check-out this MSDN Article by Charles Petzold that focuses on the multi-touch support in Silverlight 3.

Exploring Multi-Touch Support in Silverlight:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336026.aspx

See what Multi-touch support could do for your next web applications!

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