Deep Zoom Technology – Microsoft and Adobe

I was absolutely blown away with a demonstration of Vertigo’s work on SilverLight Deep Zoom at Microsoft TechEd 2008. Vertigo won the Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Web Development for 2008. Their work on the Hard Rock Memorabilia website is testament to their awesome creativity and the clever use of the SilverLight Deep Zoom technology. 
Even the Barack Obama campaign is using Deep Zoom technology [...]

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Demystifying SilverLight (Updated)

Microsoft have released and renamed versions of SilverLight thereby causing some confusion. The below release timeline may help,

SilverLight 1.0.20816 RTW (Release-to-Web): 05-Sep-2007

SilverLight 1.1.20926.0 Alpha Refresh (re-christened SilverLight 2.0): 05-Sep-2007

SilverLight 1.0.21115.0 Service Release: 20-Nov-2007 

SilverLight 2.0 RTM is scheduled to be released at the end of 2008

I also hope the following perspectives help with understanding where the technology currently stands, what is [...]

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