Links to SDK and Resources

As I mentioned last week, today is the big day! Today we are releasing the Microsoft Surface SDK and related resources. Below are the links to the development resources we promised.

• Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime
• Microsoft® Surface® 2 Development Whitepaper
• Microsoft® Surface® 2 Design and Interaction Guide
• Microsoft® Surface® 2 Hands-on Labs
• Microsoft® Surface® Migration Power Toy
• MSDN Documentation
• MSDN Forums

All these resources and links can be accessed through our new Surface Developer Center, or by going to www.surface.com and clicking on "Technical Resources & Support".
Enjoy!

Luis Cabrera
Microsoft Surface Team

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 11, 2011
  Great work! Thank you.

• Anonymous
  July 11, 2011
  Lets go to work ;)

• Anonymous
  July 12, 2011
  Wow, wonderful

• Anonymous
  July 12, 2011
  Hi Luis, The default look and feel of all the surface 2 controls (eg SurfaceButton) are different to those in the Touch Beta.  Is there an easy way to set them all to look like they did in the beta?

• Anonymous
  July 12, 2011
  The long-awaited

• Anonymous
  July 13, 2011
  @JamesH: Not really. I guess you could do some work in Expression Blend to extract they styles of the old controls, and restyle the new ones... but that is really unsupported. We are moving forward with a consistent, clean visual style.

• Anonymous
  July 15, 2011
  This is great stuff. Time to get all touchy.

• Anonymous
  July 18, 2011
  Fantastic!!!

• Anonymous
  July 19, 2011
  Hi Luis, Is it possible to embedded runtime (dll?) Surface 2.0 into Windows 7 application binaries ? I would like to start my application without install the runtime (like Surface 1.5 for Windows Touch...) Thanks a lot,

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2011
  Hey good to see the Surface SDK released to the public! Looking forward to playing with it.

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2011
  Looks like the Migration Powertoy download is broken?

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2011
  @Josh Santangelo, It works for me. Please try again.

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2011
  @Max, I guess you could place all the DLLs that are part of the runtime in the GAC, and/or in the same directory as your application. That said, the supported mechanism is to install the runtime. Thanks! -Luis.

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2011
  @Max, I guess you could place all the DLLs that are part of the runtime in the GAC, and/or in the same directory as your application. That said, the supported mechanism is to install the runtime. Thanks! -Luis.