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A few weeks ago I was tasked with coming up with something for the attendees at the first ever DigiGirlz event in Australia to play with. Something to get them a little excited about technology. Catherine Eibner came to me with some ideas that she thought would make for a compelling exercise and we came up with a cool Azure based Deep Zoom app!

Additionally the downloader can download the original composition from the website to your local disk. The downloader follows the principals of a pure MVVM application.

The Smooth Streaming allows users to view the video at the highest quality possible based on their internet connection and CPU speed. If the users connection drops to a slower speed during the video, the Smooth Streaming seamlessly adapts to keep the video stream consistent and free of buffering.

Pivot is a name that conjures data and visualization, and that is exactly what the application does. It organizes and displays information in a far more intuitive way than even advanced image searches.

With the rapid development of Silverlight as a line-of-business technology, we are seeing more and more interesting, attractive, user-friendly business applications based on it. One such application is successfully showcasing the works and achievements of its author.

We introduce you to Silverlight MVP András Velvárt and the story behind the creation of his portal http://response.hu/, and two of his award-winning projects.

I started with the SL HDView solution created by Eric Stollnitz and available as source code on codeplex: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/HDViewSL/ and transformed it on a SL3 app that would fit my needs. One cool feature worth mentioning is that this player has the possibility to render 360 panoramas, something not available out of the box by Silverlight deep zoom implementation.

For this blog post I thought it would be useful to point out the new Silverlight 3 features that I took advantage of for this app.

The new "out-of-this-world" user experience was developed with Silverlight in combination with PhotoSynth.

PhotoSynth stitches together hundreds of digital images to create a highly realistic three-dimensional (3-D) environment. Over the course of two days, a photographer snapped several hundred pictures of the ship. The team then uploaded these photos to the Photosynth tool. By using the Photosynth software, the team created more than a dozen 3-D panoramas, or “synths” of the ship’s interior from its collection of “flat” photographs.