In my last post, I introduced TouchToolkit – a toolkit for developing touch-enabled applications. This is the first of a multi-part post where I will explain how TouchToolkit can help simplify the development process of multi-touch applications in Silverlight or WPF 4.0. While we can use the recorded touch interactions (I will explain the recorder module in another post), its better to have a touch-enabled device (e.g. Dell XT2) or an emulator (e.g. MultiTouchVista) to test the application. First,...

I have been developing TouchToolkit for some time now and just released the October community technical preview (CTP) at the codeplex project website. The key features are: A domain-specific language to define custom gestures (e.g. sample gestures) Supports Windows 7/WPF 4.0 Touch API, Microsoft Surface, Silverlight and TUIO A record/replay module to simplify multi-touch testing and simulate multi-user scenarios A test framework to write unit test for testing gestures (integrated with Visual Studio...