Article on Porting WPF to Surface

Scott Hanselman has written a pretty good blog entry about porting WPF applications to Microsoft Surface. While I think WPF is an great platform for developing multi-touch applications, you need design the application from the ground up to be multi-touch. Most pre-existing WPF applications today are inappropriate for Microsoft Surface.

Slapping a multi-touch interface on a GUI application originally deployed for use with Windows and a mouse is just a bad idea. You really have to re-think the entire design of a software interface when you are deploying it to a multi-touch device.

That said, Scott's application does make sense on multi-touch and anything we can do to improve people's understanding of the Surface (as well as other multi-touch) SDKs is a good thing. Nice work, Scott.