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Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime UpdateWe have updated our SDK and runtime bits to include improved support for Windows Touch Enabled devices. There were some issues in the Microsoft Surface Input Stack handling of reports sent by a digitizer in serial mode. These issues caused the input stack to not report all touches reported by the digitizer reliably. The new build handles input from serial and parallel/hybrid digitizer more robustly.We encourage you to use this update, especially if you are building applications that will run on Windows 7 touch enabled PCs. With the Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK, you can easily create applications to take advantage of the next generation Surface computing device. The applications you create can be adapted for other Windows 7 touch-enabled devices as well.

Development platform that delivers familiarity and innovation opportunity:
• Build upon Windows 7, NET 4.0 and WPF 4.0 and integrates with Visual Studio 2010
• Benefit from consistency in experience across Windows 7 devices with the Surface multi-touch controls.
• Develop multi-user, multi-touch and object interaction unique to Surface 2.0 - innovative experiences that excite users and customers.

Easy to use tools and resources you need:
• The Surface 2.0 SDK includes controls, API, samples, and documentation to create applications that take advantage of PixelSense™. You can also use it to create touch applications for other Windows 7 touch devices.
• The Surface 2.0 SDK Microsoft Input Simulator allows you to develop and test on Windows 7 PCs (32 or 64-bit)

NOTE: This release replaces the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to April 2023.

Files
SurfaceRuntime.msi
SurfaceSDK.msi
Surface_SDK_Readme_RTM.docx SHA1: b99364b1806dcc2d90536e357118579f2ee5d216 Size: 55 KB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 7 Ultimate

Additional Requirements:
• Microsoft Visual C#® 2010 Express Edition or Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010
• .NET Framework 4.0 is required (included with Visual C# 2010 and Visual Studio 2010)
• Microsoft XNA® Framework Redistributable 4.0
• (Optional - Recommended) Microsoft Expression Blend® 4 to edit the XAML code that defines your user interface

To set up a Microsoft Surface development environment on a workstation, install all the required software packages in the order that they are listed in the requirements section. You cannot install the Surface 2.0 SDK if these software requirements are not installed.