I stumbled upon it today and thought I would post an update. It’s a excellent video from the Channel9 guys where Jaime Rodriguez and Anson Tsao discuss the new Multi-touch features that is going to be available in WPF 4 Beta 1. The WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010 provides a excellent and straightforward set of tools, that enable programmers to get a kick-start on building the next generation of high quality data-centric enterprise applications.
Microsoft has made available Visual Studio 2010 beta which includes WPF 4 beta support for multi-touch development. Anything in this Grid should (at design time, now show Customer properties in the binding assistant. A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed to Betanews that today, May 18, will be the release date for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 as well as .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1, for MSDN subscribers.
The new IDE will also give developers their first chance to build .NET services in the cloud, a huge new addition to that platform. This will change in coming VS 2010 release, but waiting the latter, Blend is your only friend (it will still be a best friend to design SL and WPF, even when VS 2010 will be released, so learn today how to use it.
