Sessions at Microsoft BUILD 2011 about XAML and Multi-touch

Thursday 15th September 2011

• Make great touch apps using XAML

  by Alnur Ismail

  Build great touch apps for Windows 8 using XAML touch and gesture events. Learn how to create touch experiences using standard controls and behaviors and build highly responsive panning and zooming capabilities that customers will love. This session will also describe how to include mouse interaction with no additional work, and how to handle multiple types of input in a unified way.

  • Multi-touch
  • Windows 8
  • XAML

  At 9:00am to 10:00am, Thursday 15th September

  In Platinum 6, Anaheim Marriott

  Coverage video

• Build advanced touch apps in Windows 8

  by Reed Townsend

  Dive into Windows Runtime and Win32 support for advanced touch and gesture input. Learn how to access rich touch input properties with PointerPoints, use flexible componentized gesture detection with GestureRecognizer, and work with touch and pointer device properties using PointerDevice. We’ll explore how apps can use Touch Targeting APIs to provide a better targeting experience and give an overview of touch APIs available to developers of desktop applications. Extend what you can do in HTML and XAML and take full advantage of the Windows Runtime touch and gesture platform.

  • Gestures
  • Multi-touch
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Runtime
  • XAML

  At 10:30am to 11:30am, Thursday 15th September

  In Grand K, Anaheim Marriott

  Coverage video