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One of the technologies announced at Mix 08 this year was Deep Zoom as part of Silverlight 2. It allows you to zoom into incredible amounts of detail in high resolution photos and cleverly only brings back the amount of data you need based on your...
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Via the LiveSide guys , I came across this neat video of software that allows users to zoom smoothly around photos and get more detail in a really rich way. This technology is based upon Silverlight and uses a technology called Seadragon which we first...
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Woah been a busy past couple of weeks. Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs! Although I didn't move far it was fairly stressful and I'm now left with a weekend of unpacking...
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I blogged about the IBC 2007 conference the other day and James Clarke just posted a very nice demo of Interactive Media Manager (IMM) today which looks extremely sexy with AJAX, Silverlight and SharePoint. The ability to have rich editing capabilities...
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Jon Harris (Expression demigod), following the announcement about Silverlight 1.0 Release is demoing Silverlight and Expression at IBC 2007 this year and as well as showing off Silverlight, Microsoft made some other announcements that are very interesting...
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Just a quick update, tickets are going fast for the Vista: After Hours events, but you still have a chance to get hold of them! We had some brilliant feedback to our last After Hours events , back in May, and these promise to be even cooler, with even...
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Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps "Contoso Bicycle Club" and "Contoso University" were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft...
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I rather like this site . Firstly, it shows a rather nice design that uses Silverlight and secondly the tutorials are bloody good. I like the way that the screenshots scale smoothly and also have nice transparencies - very sexy. I've no idea who has created...
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A partner I know is currently looking to render XPS and now a very clever chap inside Microsoft ( via Mike Taulty ) has been playing around with doing it in Silverlight . The app is very cool and has nice controls to boot. Bear in mind it's just a proof...
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Shock horror, but here's some innovation from Microsoft ( back story from comments in this post ). The New York Times Reader which was originally a Vista launch app based on WPF has been ported to Silverlight on the Mac. Now because WPF and Silverlight...
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It was only a matter of time...... I first heard about Electric Rain at the launch event for Expression in the UK and the chaps from the product team did their presentation using their software, a very sexy WPF based slide shower called Standout . Now...
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I've been meaning to blog about this for ages and today is the day. I've tried to embrace as many cool Vista applications and gadgets as I possibly can, but I don't have time to use and write about them all, and what with WPF and now Silverlight gaining...
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Firstly, a MASSIVE thanks to everyone who came along to the 2 events that James and I put on last week in Leeds and Reading respectively - we had an absolute blast doing them, and from the feedback, many of you guys had a great time, and took a lot away...
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Some interesting events coming up soon including how to develop applications using Silverlight and Windows Live: Web Design and Development with Silverlight (Formerly Code-Named “WPF/E) and Windows Live: Reading, 16 May 2007 MSDN: Visual Studio “Orcas...
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I mentioned the other day about a couple of TechNet events that James and I are doing in a couple of weeks time, and I thought I'd spill the beans a little more on what we will be covering in the sessions. Just a note before I continue - this stuff if...
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Light up the Web Silverlight (codename WPF/E) is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash (estimated to be running rich web based experiences on 95% of the world’s PCs and Macs). The goal is to provide the most natural and seamless method with which to design...
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