First just let me say that Code Monkey is a term I
use with the utmost respect to refer to REAL developers.
Darryl Burling blogged a while back in his post
about the Visual Studio Express Editions:
“Craig, even you can get this working
and become
a code monkey...”
Well, that remains to be seen, but tonight I have
taken my first baby steps.
I downloaded and installed the VB Express Edition
beta and installed the Tablet PC SDK, both available from Microsoft.
The installs complete I very carefully followed Mahesh
Chand’s instructions
to create my very first tablet application. Here’s a
screenshot:
What’s it do you ask? Er – that’s
it I’m afraid. It’s a gray box you can write on – but I
have big plans!