Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics

 

The Event

The first thing to understand is how to tap into the touch events from the hardware to Silverlight.  Understanding this at the beginning of your application development can be a critical step.  The key reason for this is unlike other input events (i.e., MouseLeftButtonDown, etc.) which can be added to individual UIElements in an application, the touch event is an application-wide event. 

There is one primary event: FrameReported.  This event is what gets fired when the hardware sends the touch events to the runtime.  The Touch class is a static class for the sole reason of this FrameReported API.  To wire it up in your application you can use code like this:

   1: Touch.FrameReported += new TouchFrameEventHandler(Touch_FrameReported);

And now you have to write your event handler.

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ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released – ScottGu’s Blog

 

The ASP.NET team just released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2.  You can download it here.

New features:

• Areas Support

• DataAnnotation Validation Support

• Strongly Typed UI Helpers

• UI Helper Templating Support

• New [HttpPost] Attribute
• Default Parameter Values
• Binding Binary Data

ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released – ScottGu’s Blog