How to Optimize Applications for UMPC? Sudoku example

Apr 11 How to Optimize Applications for UMPC? Sudoku example
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Now when Ultra Mobile PC devices like Samsung Q1 UMPC and Medion MDPEA 1000 UMPC are hitting the market there will be a new need - Applications Optimised to work perfectly on UMPC devices. Today my attention was taken by an article from Microsoft called Microsoft Sudoku: Optimizing UMPC Applications for Touch and Ink. In this article Stephen Toub discusses Sudoku and demonstrates how to build an application to solve puzzles, generate puzzles, and enable enhanced game play for ultra-mobile PC and Tablet PC.

A year ago in a small cafe in the West Village in New York City, I was introduced to a pen-and-pencil puzzle game with which my friend Luke was entirely captivated. Lively conversation with our significant others saved me from falling into the same trap, but it was only a short reprieve. A few months later in July of 2005, I again found myself confronted by Sudoku while visiting my brother and my former college roommate in London. This time, it was everywhere. And there was no escape. I was enthralled, addicted, and borderline obsessed. As is the case for many developers, today's passions frequently become tomorrow's development projects, and so it took little more than the flight back to the United States for me to have the first version of my C# Sudoku implementation up and running. sais Stephen Toub.

But I wasn't satisfied. Something was missing. There was something thrilling about setting the logically discovered numbers crisply onto the paper with my pen or pencil, a property that was lost in the game's translation into Windows Forms. And that's when it hit me. Sudoku is the quintessential application for a Tablet PC. After downloading the Tablet PC SDK to my computer the next day, I soon transformed this keyboard-and-mouse powered game into one that is completely pen-driven.

This article closely examines Tablet PC and UMPC-based implementation of Sudoku. The article details the algorithmic aspects of implementing a Sudoku game, in addition to the specific details that help you implement other applications designed for Tablet PC and UMPC, so i can strongly recommend it to those of you who develop software and their future thoughts are focused in developing UMPC Friendly applications.

You can read the article here.

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