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One of the slew of new things that is being released at MIX today is the Deep Zoom Composer powertoy:

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If you have followed the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 announcements, Silverlight 2 includes support for the Deep Zoom technology to allow you to quickly and smoothly zoom in on really large images. If you want to see an amazing implementation of the Deep Zoom technology, check out the Hard Rock Memorabilia site: https://memorabilia.hardrock.com/

What is the Deep Zoom Composer?
Deep Zoom Composer allows you to quickly import your own images, arrange and position them to your liking, and export the final output as either a Deep Zoom Image or Collection that can be fed into Silverlight's MutliScaleImage control. This means that you too can use your own images and display them using our Deep Zoom technology.

Click the link below to download the free preview version:

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Because we are currently at MIX, we haven't had  a chance to write a detailed post outlining all of the cool things you can create. Rest assured, we'll be explaining more about this application in future blog posts, but until then, feel free to try this out and let us know what you think.

Cheers!
Celso, Janete, Kirupa, and Lutz

 

FYI: In case you are curious, Deep Zoom is related to the SeaDragon technology that we have been demoing in our PhotoSynth application for a while.

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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    As you saw our earlier post announcing the Deep Zoom Composer, we have created a user guide describing

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    These announcement days always make me feel a bit panicky. There's so much stuff being announced over...

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    One of the slew of new things that is being released at MIX today is the Deep Zoom Composer powertoy:

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Will this control work on WPF too? Have you made the pan / zoom modular so that you can zoom in on any visual?  Does it have to be an image?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    One of the slew of new things that is being released at MIX today is the Deep Zoom Composer powertoy

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Joe - this control doesn't exist for WPF, so you can only use it in Silverlight. The pan / zoom hasn't been made modular, but if you are looking for a general pan/zoom solution, you could modify a ScrollViewer control to do so. The actual pan / zoom used by Silverlight's MultiScaleimage control dynamically loads and discards images to make sure unnecessary visual data isn't sent. That is more difficult to do for non-image based content :)

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Is there any way to create a Deep Zoom with transparent PNG? If not, Do you have a plan for support it?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Wow, this is excellent! Do you have any plan to support another image format (ex. png) when it exports. Thank you!

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    How about quality options for exporting!

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    I couldn't find much in the way of documentation around this so I thought I'd post something rough here...

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    I tried a sample using deep zoom composer and refered in expression blend 2 march edition, In expression blend 2 i can see my images in design view. but IE shows blank screen why?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Dzisiejszy poranek przyniósł mnóstwo dobrych, ciekawych i zaskakujących wiadomości. Na sesję otwierającą

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    One of the cool things seen at Mix 08 today was the Deep Zoom technology. This was originally called

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    One of the cool things seen at Mix 08 today was the Deep Zoom technology. This was originally called

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    MultiScaleImage with mouse support-ish

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Here's a consolidated list of all the key downloads you'll need to update your developer workstation

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    At the MIX08 conference, a lot of new, great stuff was announced, here is one place to download everything

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    One of the slew of new things that is being released at MIX today is the Deep Zoom Composer powertoy

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/0... If you want to create your own Seadragon images

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Expression Blend and Design : Download the Preview of the Deep Zoom Composer Deep Zoom은 Silverlight 에

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Expression Blend and Design : Download the Preview of the Deep Zoom Composer Deep Zoom은 Silverlight 에

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Esta semana está transcurriendo EL evento donde se presentan las novedades en el mundo Web: MIX

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    Excelente Producto, vea mas informacion en Espanol en www.sharepoint2007.co.cc

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    Esta semana está transcurriendo EL evento donde se presentan las novedades en el mundo Web: MIX

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    Hi, I tried out the Deep Zoom Composer on a smallish BMNG image and it worked fine. However, every time I attempt a real image BMNG1.jpg 24.9Mb 21600x21600 the import shows the correct file size 24.91Mb but Dimensions1x1 with no view and nothing to export? Does anyone know size limitations for Deep Zoom Composer?

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    I did not get the point of this app. I imported 4 images and compose one with them and when i exported the project it created 10 folders 6 of them empty and the other had each of them one on my pics... i also exported a collection but don't know how it works.. the guide i downloaded also doesn't have enough information.. i also say hard rock cafe web site... did not get it...

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    Ivana - check out the example here: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/03/09/deep-zoom-sample-with-mousewheel-pan-click-zoom.aspx The point of the Deep Zoom Composer is to allow you to create the tiled/zoomed images easily for use with the Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight 2. Cheers! Kirupa :)

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    I took a reasonable resolution version of the Silverlight 2 Developer Reference Poster and crossed that

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    I took a reasonable resolution version of the Silverlight 2 Developer Reference Poster and crossed that

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch Mark/Daniel/Crow

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch Mark/Daniel

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    One of the coolest things shown at MIX08 was Deep Zoom. Deep Zoom is a technology that came from a technology

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    One of the coolest things shown at MIX08 was Deep Zoom. Deep Zoom is a technology that came from a technology

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    by Don Burnett Over at the Expression Blend blog, Microsoft released a tool for Silverlight 2.0 to preview

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    This is interesting, but only just the beginning. From a geo-IT / web mapping solutions perspective, you'd want to be able to convert  either a single very large image (we're talking gigabytes) or an already existing cache of map tiles to the Deep Zoom file / directory structure. This seems not too hard to do, except for the .bin file, which seems important because the Silverlight control points to it. How about shedding some light on this binary file - tha t would be most welcome.

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    If you liked the Hard Rock demo from MIX , here's how you can easily build something similar yourself

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    Bill - are you able to see any Silverlight 2 content?

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    Post: Approved at: Mar-12-2008 Deep Zoom Composer This is just too cool. Works with Silverlight 2.0 to

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    Well, it was great being in Vegas a week ago - it was a great event and there were some pretty cool announcements

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    Well, it was great being in Vegas a week ago - it was a great event and there were some pretty cool announcements

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    To zapraszam tutaj: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/03/05/download-the-preview-of-the-deep-zoom-composer.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    To zapraszam tutaj: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/03/05/download-the-preview-of-the-deep

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    I created my Star Wars Deep Zoom preview and really liked it, but then contacted the author of the site

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    Here's a consolidated list of all the key downloads you'll need to update your developer workstation

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    Silverlight 2 Beta1に対応したDeep Zoomテクノロジを使用した画像を合成する Deep Zoom Composer が公開されています。 Deep Zoomは複数解像度の画像を階層的に持ち、巨大な画像をインタラクティブに描画するテクノロジです。

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    Today I updated my Surface Demo (original source from Silverlight examples ). Well, there are only some

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    I notice you gave no credit to Benoit Mandelbrot---why is that? --hsm p.s. if you are less than 25 then I was creating similar images before you were born... author of FracTools and FracZooms

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2008
    I have nothing to say! You should watch this demo from Michael Schwarz , it is really impressive. Today

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2008
    I've been playing around with this quite a bit but it always seems to degrade my images.  Also, why have an option to import different file formats when DZC changes then into JPGs anyway?  And surely there should be a manual compression setting? Cool bit of kit though...

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2008
    It has been three weeks since we annouced Silverlight 2 at MIX08. Many of you are excited to getting

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2008
    Over the past month, we released beta versions of Expression Blend 2 and Expression Design 2 , a preview

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2008
    Like a lot of folks, I was pretty impressed the first time I saw Silverlight 2.0's new Deep Zoom feature

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2008
    今天看到周兄的【全面解析DeepZoom之一】酷！DeepZoom的介绍，觉得实在是酷，就开始动手做了一下，做的不好，凑合着看吧。周兄是给大家全面解析，我只是做着玩的，所以叫做简单示范……准备...

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2008
    מיקרוסופט בחרה בעיצוב חלק ופשטני (כמו האתר של קט-אד 2008 ). ההשקעה בקטעי הוידאו הייתה אדירה, מיקרוסופט

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2008
    今天看到周兄的 【全面解析DeepZoom 之一】酷！Deep Zoom 的介绍，觉得实在是酷，就开始动手做了一下，做的不好，凑合着看吧。周兄是给大家全面解析，我只是做着玩的，所以叫做简单示范…… 准备

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2008
    Over the past several months, I went to many colleges and universities to talk about user experience

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2008
    Over the past several months, I went to many colleges and universities to talk about user experience

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2008
    A poche ore dalla conclusione dell'evento, non posso far altro che ringraziarvi personalmente... l'entusiasmo

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2008
    One of the demos that captures people's attention with some Silverlight 2 demos is the Seadragon

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2008
    Last week I had the great opportunity to do my first experiments with Silverlight 2.0. I was truly fascinated

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Over at the Expression Blend blog, Microsoft released a tool for Silverlight 2.0 to preview release called the Deep Zoom Composer . The user guide has also been released . So what does this do for you? Well if you are developing HD photo applications

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2008
    Lo prometido es deuda, mi presentación del Latin America Cio Sumit 2008 . Además invito a TODOS

  • Anonymous
    June 23, 2008
    Dee Zoom Composer is the most powerful application that can create the rich silverlight 2.0 content with

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2009
    In the latest zoom composer (version 0.9.000.6    &    Date Published: 4/16/2009)  there is no facility to export as SilverLight Project