Hello All, I guess this is a multi-part question. I can import a 3D model into my WPF application but how do I apply an ambient occlusion shader effect to it? I know with .NET 3.5 SP1 you can do custom effects but that's limited to pixel shaders and doesn't include vertex shaders. I think i can do this with an XNA application but Im n...
If I wanted to get a pilot project off the ground using Microsoft Surface, where or who do I ask for testing hardware? ...
I was lucky enough recently to be involved in a Surface project at Microsoft writing an educational game for an upcoming "trade show". I can really see how the collaborative nature and natural interaction of the Surface could be huge in the education space, I really can't get excited by touch or multi-touch on a "normal" machine. I can ...
I am developing for a MS Surface unit and am using a ScatterView to display some data. The scenario below probably fits a normal ListBox (and ListBoxItems) too. When I databind the ScatterView, WPF automatically wraps the contents of the DataTemplate with ScatterViewItems. I want to attach some event handers for the ScatterManipulationC...
This is a (kind of) similar situation as in the SDK Sample Shopping Cart for MS Surface. I have an application with two ScatterViews. The first covers the complete Surface window ('surface'). The second resides in a TagVisualization object ('pod'). There might be more than one pod available (if more than one tag is down on the table). ...
Do you guys came across any sample application (i need source code of the app) for microsoft surface in web? ...
Is it possible to import WMF (Windows Metafile) or any other vector based file into a silverlight project? ...
How to create a interactive 3D object in WPF? For example it can be a 3D Cube which can be rotated and with "tap" gesture for each side triggering different action. ...
hey guys I came across the Dell Studio One 19 on the web the other day, and wondered what the Dev environment for the Multi-Touch was? Anyone out there developing for this, or know what the environment is? I know that to develop for the HP TouchSmart you need HP's own SDK....and it doesn't sound too good to me (check out this .NET Roc...
I am filling my ElementMenu with XML and all goes fine, i only got one question. How can i put a event on the last item? It doesnt seem to react on any of it. I got this so far: <s:ElementMenu.RenderTransform> <TranslateTransform X="0" Y="-27.5"/> </s:ElementMenu.RenderTransform> <s:ElementMenu.Ite...
Not sure there's too many surface developers on here but hey ho... If i have a scatterview which implicity creates the ScatterViewItem objects (see below), is it possible to retireve the contact events for each scatterViewItem? Also when i wrap tyhe image object in a ScatterViewItem explicitly the item no longer works. Could anyone adv...
Title is fairly self-explanitory, I'm working on a Microsoft Surface application, and I don't know what the difference is between these two event handler sets beyond that the PreviewContact(Changed/Down/etc) set works and Contact(Changed/Down/etc) set often doesn't. Is the "Preview" set merely an update for the "regular" set, or does it ...
This is an age old problem of interactive elements inside interactive elements, but I want a ScatterViewItem to contain other surface interactive elements such as a SurfaceButton or SurfaceCheckBox. I've got all my elements in there and they react to taps etc. The problem is that I only get the normal ScatterView behavior once I click...
I'm trying to implement drag and drop functionality in a Surface Application that is built using the MVVM pattern. I'm struggling to come up with a means to implement this while adhering to the MVVM pattern. Though I'm trying to do this within a Surface Application I think the solution is general enough to apply to WPF as well. I'm tr...
I am developing a program for Surface using Expression Blend and Visual Studio. I have a custom user control with an ellipse and a label in a grid. This will need to be placed in a scatterViewItem. My problem is that the scatterviewitem will cast a rectangle shaped shadow under the ellipse shaped content. I can disable the shadow comple...
I'm currently using the Surface SDK 1.0 in Blend and VS2008, and I've encountered a problem: I use a scatterview over the whole screen. I also have a grid in the middle of the screen. The panel in the middle is quite annoying because my scatterviewitems can easily get lost BEHIND the grid, and since the grid is locked in position, there ...
Background: I'm currently for my University creating some simple apps showcasing the possible educational potential of the Microsoft Surface. Their functionality falls somewhere between a basic demo app and a full-fledged production app. Our hesitation with using MVVM or some other type of MVC is that, with the exception for the few a...
Hi, looking at some of the MS Surface demos they use a HTC mobile phone running windows to interact with the surface (access the phones memory and download the images from it and display using the scatter view). My question is how were they communicating with the phone? would it have been using bluetooth or wireless connection? Is it ...
I'm working on a Microsoft Surface and attaching a round image object to a ScatterViewItem. I'm having an issue hiding the background of the square ScatterViewItem. If I go in and set the background to transparent, it's not transparent, it's more like gray translucent. So what I end up with is a round image in the middle sitting on a ...
Im developing an app for Microsoft Surface and Im trying to make the most of the libraries that are out there, the functionality Im after if to be able to flick a UI element. The ScatterView control makes this easy, but I would like to restrict the UI element to only be able to be flicked along a set path. This is where Im having troub...