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Source: Swiss MSDN Team Blog

The whole idea is to show the 12 candidates in super high resolution without any Photoshop correction and let you judge the Misses like you were standing 10 cm away from them.

The solution is composed by three parts:

• A panorama showing all 12 girls together
• A 360° view of each girl
• A Microsoft Pivot collection with sortable and searchable information about the girls with a high resolution picture

Pivot Viewer control is used for visualizing big chunk of data and allows filtering and sorting by many criteria. Source code can be used as data that should be analyzed by a developer/team lead etc to find out bottlenecks. When I say ‘bottlenecks’, I mean classes, files, methods that should be refactored. For example, It is very difficult to maintain large classes or methods. They  should be divided into several pieces or minimized by excluding duplicated code etc.

The greatest challenge in porting an application from the web / desktop version of Silverlight to WP7 is that the latter demands a totally different approach to the user experience. You can expect an almost complete rewrite here, but almost none, when it comes to the business logic, client-server communication, models, server side, etc. However, the existing Silverlight development skillset you or your team has is almost 100% percent transferable – the new concepts (such as the Application Bar, the gestures, the sensors, etc.) are easy to grasp. In my opinion Microsoft made the right bet choosing Silverlight as one of the two development platforms for Windows Phone 7, making over 500,000 Silverlight developers WP7 developers overnight.

Fauna & Flora International (FFI), founded in 1903, was the world's first international conservation organisation. Expanding beyond its African origins, FFI succeeded in giving conservation a voice on the international stage and drawing worldwide attention to the plight of rare and endangered species and habitats.

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.