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Gavin Wignall is experimenting with Silverlight Pivot using the pictures of the American Presidents.

Source: Silverlight Buzz

I recently looked into the Microsoft Labs Pivot tool which now allows you to place Pivot experiences within Silverlight projects. To learn this new technology I needed a source of data with correlating imagery to use as a test subject. Seeing as I used the “American Presidents” as one of my test subjects for a DeepZoom experiment over a year ago, I thought to myself, why not use them again.

First off I scrapped and grabbed as much data on all the 44 Presidents that I could find. This included everything from their birthdays, religion, salaries to how they died and more. Pivot takes all this data after it has been neatly constructed in an XML file and outputs it as a visual interface. This interface allows you to cross reference the data to compare your subjects in a visually attractive manor.

In the Pivot experiment you will see all 44 Presidents, you can zoom in and out of each President using the mouse wheel or the controls at the top right. On the left are the options to filter and cross reference information. Selecting different data will automatically update the Presidents shown. You can also flick between grid view and bar graph views at the top right of the screen. Zoom into each president by clicking on them, doing this will bring up lots of information on the right hand side. You can drag left, right, up and down to view other presidents, the information on the right will change as you drag around.

Switch between the Pivot and the DeepZoom examples by pressing the toggle button in the top left of the screen.

http://www.knowmypresidents.com/

Senthil Kumar has posted some new Windows Phone 7 training videos that cover topics like Panorama and Pivots, Planning and Optimizing for Performance, Design using Microsoft Blend etc.

Source: Senthil Kumar's Blog

Well , i havn’t got enough time to look in to all the updated videos , but did see some of the new one’s like Panorama and Pivots ,Location and Bing Maps and Optimizing for Performance , looks pretty impressive .

The Pivots and Panorama session explains about how these features are used in the Metro design and when and how to use them too.The Bing Map session is pretty long too and covers techniques for using the Location Services and the Bing Map Control.

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Jeff Blankenburg has published four more post from his new series called 31 Days of Windows Phone:

• Day #15: Isolated Storage
• Day #16: The Panorama Control
• Day #17: The Pivot Control
• Day #18: WebBrowser Control

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Source: Shawn Wildermuth's Blog

As I've seen, many developers want to use these controls so determining the best path here is an important discussion.

Both of these controls work in similar ways in that they have sub-content areas. For example, the Panorama allows you to specify a variable number of panels (or PanoramaItem objects) inside the panorama that make up the control.

• Architecting WP7 - Part 1 of 10: Navigation Framework

Source: Jeff Fansler's Blog

One gotcha to think about when using the pivot is what happens if your application is interrupted (phone call, windows button, etc). When the user navigates back to your app with the back button, the pivot will display the first pivot item. I don’t like that. I want the user to go back exactly where they were. They should see the same pivot item that they were looking at when they navigated away from your app. Here’s how.

Source: SlickThought.Net

Plenty of examples on working with this stuff in the WP7 Training Kit, so no source code.

Source: Programmer Payback

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.