Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK

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Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK

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The Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK provides the managed APIs and the tools you need to develop Surface applications. Applications that are built using the Surface SDK can run on devices made for Surface 2.0, and on Windows 7 computers. Developing applications for Surface is essentially the same as developing WPF or XNA applications, except that the Surface SDK provides extended support for the special features of the Surface environment (50 simultaneous touch points, finger and blob recognition, tagged objects, detection of the orientation of touches, tilted display, rotated display, specialized controls, and so on). Surface applications that are installed and registered on a device made for Surface are automatically integrated with the Surface Shell and can make use of those special features. For a video that shows a device made for Surface in use, see What Is Surface.

In this Section

• What's New in Surface 2.0
  
  
• Surface Overview
  
  
• Developing for General Surface Features
  
  
• Developing Core Layer Surface Applications
  
  
• Developing Presentation Layer Surface Applications
  
  
• Testing and Debugging Surface Applications
  
  
• Deploying Surface Applications
  
  
• Surface Tools
  
  
• Surface Samples
  
  
• Class Library Reference
  
  

Additional Information

For additional Surface product documentation and resources, see the following websites:

• Surface Design and Development Center
  
  
• The Microsoft Surface Blog
  
  
• Surface Developer Forums
  
  
• Surface Application Showcase
  
  
• Surface Training Modules
  
  
• Surface Design Guidelines
  
  
• Technical Resources on the Surface Website
  
  
• Microsoft Surface SDK (downloads)
  
  
• Surface Administration Guide on TechNet
  
  
• Surface Administrator Forums
  
  

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