Anson Tsao's Blog
On programming, user interfaces and data visualizations
Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta Release!
Our friends over at Surface just released the beta toolkit built on WPF4. The toolkit is usable with...
Date: 04/12/2010
Custom Touch Devices
WPF4 allows applications to implement custom touch devices. We added this functionality to allow...
Date: 01/30/2010
Pictionaire: Multi-touch table that integrates physical and digital objects from Microsoft Research
Another interesting MSR multi-touch project: Pictionaire This research project combines computer...
Date: 01/30/2010
Multi-touch in WPF 4 Part 3 – Manipulation Events
One of the most common usage of multi-touch input is for panning, zooming and rotation. With WPF4,...
Date: 01/11/2010
Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 2
Raw Touch EventsTouch events are the equivalent of mouse events for multi-touch input. In WPF4,...
Date: 12/11/2009
Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
Really amazing work bringing together scientific data, 3D visualization, interactivity, and music.
Date: 12/08/2009
Multi-touch in WPF 4 – Part 1
During PDC 09, I co-presented a multi-touch session with Robert Levy from Surface. (BTW, You...
Date: 12/03/2009