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As an amateur photographer, I have always kept my eyes open for new tools to help me search, sort, filter, and view my own photos. Microsoft Pivot (a cool new technology that lets you easily view, search, and filter data using deep zoom) seemed like a natural and obvious fit for the task.

Therefore, using Microsoft Pivot and the Pauthor open source libraries, I created a tool that helps users create a pivot collection from the photos on their hard drive and supports filtering by all the nifty meta data embedded in those files such as shutter speed, aperture, film speed, and focal length.

WebCam and Microphone support was one of the most requested features for Silverlight and Microsoft has answered the call. There are several ways to interact with the WebCam, but i'll start with the most simple.

Bron Skinner has a great post in which is explained how to create a twist and drag photo album.

I took up Silverlight almost a year ago and I can still remember one of the first projects someone else had posted on the Microsoft’s Silverlight Show that really sparked my interest in the technology - A Twist and Drag photo album. In searching the net for specific examples I found it very difficult to find any in depth descriptions of methodologies used to emulate what I had seen. So with a bit of elbow grease and determination I went at my notebook and came up with the following.

You can use this great application of Terence Tsang to share photos that are stored in your server.

Features:

1. Integrate with PHP to display server side folder structure and image files.
2. On demand folder listing which enhance your browsing experience.
3. Thumbnail generators which speed up your loading speed.
4. Customizable layout and style.