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,...

Just installed the runtime and Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008. You can find the necessary tools here. The beta 1 now has a good set of controls including Data Grid, cool! To run the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha projects in Beta 1, you need to manually modify few things. First, if you try to open the old projects in VS 2008 after installing the latest bits, you will get the following error message: "Unable to read the project file '... .csproj'. ... The imported project "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\Vis...