Frank LaVigne

Frank LaVigne


Frank La Vigne is a Microsoft® Tablet PC MVP and Lead Architect/Designer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS) in Northern Virginia.


Frank started in software development when he was twelve, writing BASIC programs for the Commodore 64.


He began his professional career writing Visual Basic 3 applications for Wall Street firms in 1993. He then moved on to be the first webmaster for a major book retailer. Frank then went on to develop a large multinational online banking project in Germany.


In 2004, Frank became heavily focused on Tablet PC application development. Since then, he has been working on various tablet-based solutions.


You can read more on his blog at http://www.FranksWorld.com

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  • Exploring Ink Analysis

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 2 - Mobility

    The Tablet PC SDK makes it easy to incorporate digital ink and handwriting analysis into applications; and now the InkAnalysis API (available in Windows Vista™ as well as downlevel to the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system through a redistributable) takes it one step further.Actually, the InkAnalysis API exposes some of the lower-level functions that make handwriting recognition possible. It also exposes some functionality that can improve recognition results, support shapes, alternative recognition results, and spatial analysis. In this article, I will take a deeper look into what goes on behind the scenes and how to take advantage of the tablet team’s hard work.