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Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

The only downside of these actions is that they aren’t fully implemented. So you’ll have to extend the PivotViewer control yourself. If you haven’t worked with the PivotViewer before, you might want to have a look at the Building your first PivotViewer application tutorial I wrote earlier first. This tutorial continues on that.

Source: Timmy Kokke's Blog

This tutorial continues on techniques from last tutorial about runtime collection creation. If you are just getting started using the PivotViewer control, you might want to have a look at the Getting Started Tutorial first. This tutorial is centered around the methods build in the last tutorial: MakeCollection and MakeItem.

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.

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 collection and application need to be hosted on a web server (even the Visual Studio development web server that VS starts up to run your Silverlight apps will do just fine). You'll also need at least .net 3.5 installed to run the application.

I received an email a few days back hoping for a more quick “how to” on using this control.  After all, it is a control for Silverlight and requires some implementation.  Honestly, I hadn’t even used it myself until I got that note.  I thought I’d jot down my notes in creating and consuming the simplest form of data and display using PivotViewer.  I say “simple” because you can get much more complex, but I wanted to simply show the quick steps.

Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. Microsoft Live Labs tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web.

Here are the basic walkthrough to get up and running with PivotViewer Control

After getting all the stuff as mentioned in the faq, Open VS2010 and create a silverlight application. Add a website hosted in IIS adding a clientAccesspolicy file as needed. Make sure it is set a startup project. Go the Property pages and select silverelightApplications and add a test page. set  the testpage as startup page. [...]