"Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" might be a mouthful, but it's a "managed" mouthful. This special release of Windows XP not only includes revolutionary support for inking and handwriting recognition, but it is also based on the .NET Framework using managed code. But don't think of Tablet PC applications as just cute gimmicks, or only appropriate for applications that deal with handwriting. Almost any application can realize some great usability enhancements by adding pen and ink features to their supported features.
In this episode we talk with Peter Loforte and Sam George about what the purpose, scope, and motivating features are of the Tablet PC operating system and the applications that run on it. We'll show real code examples of what it takes to build a Tablet PC application from scratch using Visual Studio .NET.
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