The link to the post detailing this explains pretty much what I just did then you can go and embed the Image.  Now its a little tricker than they explain so here is some more details.

Now there are two ways to go here

1. Create your own deepzoom file in the composer and host it yourself, (which you can go figure for yourself)

2. Host it on the photozoom site (free). 

Its photozoom I’ll tell you how to use.  First you will need a large photo (or small but then whats the point) in my case I took seven photos of the same tree with an exposure lock and stiched them all together using Windows Live Gallery.

Upload your big photo to photozoom (create an account etc follow instructions onscreen) it may take some time to appear but it will.

So have fun looking at your silverlight version but to make this work, click on the “View Individual Photos” then click the photo itself, at the bottom of the page is a section called “DeepZoom Image File” its an xml file and is what you want.  If you follow the instructions on the labs site you will get it wrong, cos they forgot to tell you the extra step (at time of writing).

Mine is http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/DZ/1/zcc6bc1ea8fb746409a678f8814887e9a/collection_images/0.xml if your looking to quickly knock this up.

Now go to the embed viewer create bit here, paste in the Url and click build embed.

Its that simple, now you can paste the HTML into your blog post, like the one below

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://seadragon.com/ajax/embed.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript”>Seadragon.embed(“400px”, “300px”, “http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/DZ/1/zcc6bc1ea8fb746409a678f8814887e9a/collection_images/0.xml”, 5373, 7773, 512, 0, “jpg”);</script>

As you can see you can tweak the size yourself and here is mine.

http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/

This is RIA at its best.

PhotoZoom is a site created by mslivelabs and incorporates the DeepZoom technology.  Don’t expect a full blown flickr site here, this is a demo obviously, but it demos beautifully the possibilities  of DZ on a photo site.

So if you don’t know what DZ is or have seen PZ then pop along to my album I created here.  Use the Mouse Wheel to zoom and left mouse to grab and move the canvas.

http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/Album.aspx?alias=BinaryJam&album=1&lc=2057

For those who really have no clue as to what DZ is here is a description nicked from MS. Note Seadragon is the original name.

Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February. Its aim is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network.

Tells you loads that don’t it.  Essentially you stitch a whole bunch of photies together creating a huge photo I mean really really huge, then the processor rips it apart into tiles.  Those tiles are loaded dependant on viewpoint and zoom level.  So instead of downloading some 10 billion pixel image only the viewpoint tiles are loaded each zoom level being a image scale of the original until you get right down in it.  Apparently this only produces 1.33 times the original file size but massively reduces the download size.  And it looks really cool too.

http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/rickbarraza?entry=connecting_to_the_wii_control 

It’s a video of some chap whose created a Minority Report interface using

WPF

.NET

WiiMote

Fancy Custom pair of gloves (with leds in the fingers I reckon)

A piece of string

It’s quite impressive, It uses Brian Peeks .Net library for interaction with the WiiMote.(Other Article in case your websense blocks it). 

Then using the custom hardware (gloves) can control the items on screen.   The Wiimote can track up to four infra-red LED items at a time, the rest is all software.

This should be possible in Silverlight 2.0 as well.,

**UPDATE** : reading the forums its unlikely this is the case.  Silverlight reacts to the keys and the mouse specifically, people are saying the sway silverlight is built, is that is is not possible.

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Here are the links

PhotoViewer. : The stand alone version of the WebPart project I do the testing and enhancements on first, its easier to see when I have messed it up here.

**Update** Moved to codeplex.

Currently in a laughable state of development, try it you will see.

Silverlight Photo Viewer WebPart : The Sharepoint Portal version of Photo Viewer.  Coded as an Installable WebPart.  This means that if installed on a portal level then any user on any portal are can jsut drop this on and it displays from the default Image Library list.  This needs some work to make it work “MySite” cos it explodes at the moment, also I need to try it on Sub Sites of MySite and WSS Sites.  This should work on Sharepoint 2003 and MOSS 2007 as all 2003 webparts should (mostly).

Silverlight WebPart Template : A Really Simple Webpart project that implements a button that says click me.  It has mouseover anims and fullscreen and thats it.  What’s special about this is that the webpart is coded to allow multiple instances of this part on the same page.  The photo viewer code is based on this.    This should work on Sharepoint 2003 and MOSS 2007 as all 2003 webparts should (mostly).

Would really like to hear if you implement this and what you think and what improvements could be made.  I know of a few but I’m interested in your opinions and there should be a lot considering how many downloads there have been lately.

Many of the developer sites are quoting the RC but forgetting about blend. Now because they think that blend is a designer tool its being highlighted in the the designer channels but believe me as a developer you need blend I would not want to try to design animations in xaml. I like to see what I’m doing and pick colours and gradients not code them (unless of course that’s what’s required).

So don’t forget get the new blend as well as silverlight runtimes and sdks.

My comment was squarely aimed at those developers who suffered through the DHTML Application architecture introduced in VB6 (but you could frig it in VB5).  In this architecture you could, by having an activeX on the page, control and access the DOM.  It didn’t catch on due to compatibility problems with other browsers, but I tell you some times it was just great, when we created an “Ajax” web application back in IE4 having the speed of compiled code on your side to do the calculations and then manipulate the DOM and not have to worry ourselves with error handling Jscript, which just didn’t handle errors at all back then was marvelous.

Silverlight gives you all this again but cross browser and cross platform in a much better development environment than VB5/6.  In fact Jay is so excited by this he states it twice and in big fonts.  So in case you missed it here it is again here,

“Now we’re going to talk to the browser’s DOM directly from Silverlight replacing JavaScript with C#. (And then debug it from Visual Studio!)” .

Long live DHTML Applications (redux).

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Pete Brown has a lovely example of Silverlight animation that’s just so pretty called balloons.  Can you tell what it is yet ?  This is done in Silverlight 1.1 and he goes into detail on some of the problems he has had in creating this and what things are lacking in Alpha.

So take a look at this and his other posts all are pretty interesting, I know I will.

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But for now I found this, Jaime Rodriguez has a tool to create motion path animations, well almost it creates key frames for the animation based on an equivalent WPF project that you can then cut and paste the xaml.

So for now this is great but MS hurry up and get some more features in, in under a 100k please.

Here is the link

Source Code can be found here

This is a Silverlight beta project.

UPDATE : ** RC1 SOURCE **

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