Design with Silverlight

Like everyone else, I was deeply interested in the DeepZoom feature that introduced at MIX.

I spent some time playing with it, and at the moment, it looks to have some limitations. Granted, it’s a preview release (Expression Composer), and I’m probably not doing the software any favors by choking it up with a half-dozen or so high-res photos, but it seems really hit or miss. I can lay out all of my photos in the main display, export it, and it works fine.

When I start scaling the images down and positioning them in order to create the “zoom” effect, once I get past 3 or 4 images, the software just stops updating the output file. It *says* it’s exporting, but it doesn’t actually seem to *do* anything.

An attractive image gallery containing 16 images. Images and their captions (if configured) can be viewed by clicking. If no images are selected, the gallery will automatically switch to slideshow mode after 10 seconds. Includes a how-to document that provides an overview of the creation process using Blend and detailed description of functionality! View     Download (706K ZIP)

A small (2K) resuable library that makes it easy to add freeform rotation capability to any object. The rotations work off of a simple XAML naming convention and the addition of the necessary event handlers.

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A compact client side script that gives a feeling like going through an old shoebox of photos - you see the corner of an old memory peeking out from beneath the others, lovingly grab it from the pile, and hold it up to take a closer look.

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