Microsoft is Crazy About Sudoku (Free Games)

When Microsoft’s Stephen Toub’s obsession with Sudoku “forced” him to write a version for his TabletPC, it was quickly added into Microsoft’s new Ultra-Mobile PC’s Touch Pack. Now Microsoft has Stephen’s solution available as a download.  

Microsoft Sudoku: Optimizing UMPC Applications for Touch and Ink  This article closely examines Stephen Toub’s Tablet PC-based implementation of Sudoku. It is the same implementation in the Touch Pack, a software package that comes preinstalled on ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs). 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. (Requires: Tablet PC SDK v 1.7) – Support MSDN Document  

 

Even More FREE Microsoft Sudoku Resources: 

 

• Stephen Toub’s Sudoku on a non-Tablet PC 
• Suduko Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar
• Stephen’s Sudoku article in Chinese, French, German and Spanish.
• Sudoku for Windows Mobile Devices
• Sudoku Solver Excel Template
• Sudoku Add-in for OnNote
  

Microsoft Bloggers 

• Brad Abrams’ Sudoku solver in C#
• Samuel Aina’s Solving Sudoku with SQL
• Robert Burke’s Sudoku Solver Web Service
• Kumar Gaurav Khanna’s WS-Sudoku
• Dino’s “Re-use of existing Java code (Sudoku engine)”
• Matt Winkle’s Sudoku Validator (Part 1) "Rules and Collections"

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