March meeting - Jennifer Marsman presents "Windows 7 for Developers"
February 01, 2010
Date
March 17
Abstract
In Windows 7, Multitouch and the Ribbon provide you with powerful capabilities to differentiate your application from the competition. We’ll explore how the Ribbon has been extended from Office 2007 to Windows 7, how you can use it in your own applications, and demonstrate a tool to help you develop Ribbons. In the physical world, we interact with objects using multiple fingers. Multitouch allows you to extend this capability to your computer, so it can recognize and respond to not just a single mouse pointer, but multiple fingers touching the screen at once. This gives your users a very natural method of interacting with your application. We will explore and demonstrate the multitouch capabilities available with Windows 7 out of the box, the gesture-level APIs, and the raw touch input APIs.
Bio
Jennifer Marsman is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. Prior to becoming a Developer Evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in Microsoft’s Natural Interactive Services division. In this role, she filed two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology. Jennifer earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory.
David Giard