Last wednesday I presented a lunch session at the TechDays2010 in Belgium entitled "How we created 'De Kinderpuzzel'". This session was about a Microsoft Surface project we did for the Flemish Television and the production house Koeken Troef !.

The slides that I used for this presentation you can see below (just click on the link).

You can now watch the presentation on channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/liese/TechDays-2010--Developer-Walkthrough-how-we-built-De-Kinderpuzzel/If I understood correctly the video of this presentation will become available on Channel9. As soon as this happens I'll post a link here.For now, you can already have a look at the excellent keynote by Anders Hejlsberg.

Having read most of the Surface SDK over the last couple of days, I started playing with the examples. I started changing one of the SDK examples in order to create an application that I had in my mind for a long time. That is coming along nicely. I'll blog about this application later.

Last night I was a little confused on what events are generated when touching the surface. The Visualization example does a good job at showing the data (what object is recognized, where is it positioned, what's the rotation, etc.) received in an application when the surface is touched. I wanted to know a little more about the chain of events received by a SurfaceControl.

Therefore I spent half an hour creating a small application that lists these events. The application itself will not teach you a lot, but it's interesting to play around with the events that are received. It can bring some extra understanding on how the contacts are being processed (especially for a beginning surface developer).

Please feel free to download the application and have a look at the results.

TouchIdentifierApplication.zip (181.06 kb)