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    Silverlight Streaming saves me Bandwidth

    http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=73&EntryI...
    2 days ago in Soul Solutions Blog · Authority: 6

    I posted my first dev article on liveside.net on the weekend, it all about making a panorama, using deep zoom, virtual earth and silverlight streaming. Today I checked the reports on usage: 5,644 hits on the sample application in a few days! That could have been my entire server's bandwidth for the month (50GB).

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    First of Many New Live Developer Articles

    http://mes-newslive.blogspot.com/2008/05/first-of-many-new-l...
    4 days ago in Live News · Authority: 5

    Hello fellow LiveSide readers, my name is John O'Brien. Its my second season as a Windows Live Developer/Platform MVP and I'm pleased to announce many new developer related articles in the works for your reading pleasure here at LiveSide. Today I published Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live on the Developer Blog. Its a how to guide for taking a Panorama Photo, stitching in Windows Live Photo Gallery, crunching in Deep Zoom Composer, uploading to Silverlight Streaming and display on top a Virtual Earth map. I hope you enjoy the read, I had fun making it, even the 5am trip out to the Story Bridge here in my home city of Brisbane, Australia.

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    Cool use of Silverlight, Deepzoom and Virtual Earth

    http://blogs.msdn.com/pblog/archive/2008/05/12/cool-use-of-s...
    4 days ago in Me about things... · Authority: 5

    The guys at Liveside.net just published a very interesting post on how to mesh a Silverlight Deepzoom app into a Virtual Earth map. Here is the final effect (to see it you will need to download the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime) If you consider that this was done with all freely available tools and with very little coding, this shows how powerful the Silverlight + Live combination can be….

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    通过 Windows Live 创建 Deep Zoom 全景

    http://livesino.net/archives/828.live
    4 days ago in LiveSino - LiveSide 中文版 · Authority: 119

    在这篇文章中，我会向大家介绍如何使用微软 Windows Live 一系列工具和服务来创建存储高质量的全景图。这些整合的 Windows Live 存储托管和服务允许用户通过 HTML 获得强大的富互联网应用。你将会使用以下工具和服务： 数码相机 Windows Live Photo Gallery Deep Zoom Composer Silverlight2 Silverlight Streaming Virtual Earth 这个就是最终效果：缝合 8 张澳大利亚 Brisbane 的 Story Bridge 全景图。 第一步 - 确定一个好的主题 选择自己喜欢的主题（景点）： 第二步 - Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery 是一个面向普通用户的照片管理和处理工具，可以在 http://get.live.com 这里下载获得。 只需选中需要全景缝合的照片，右键选择“创建全景照片”： 通过这样处理，就可以获得以下效果的图，但如此高质量的照片（4.5MB），如何才能在网络上有效地共享该图呢？ 第三步 - Deep Zoom Composer 我们可以利用 Silverlight 2 中的新技术：Deep Zoom 来解决上面这个难题。并且最新更新的 Deep Zoom Composer 只需几步就可以创建。下载 Deep Zoom Composer。 创建新的项目，导入照片，并拖至控制区。Deep Zoom Composer 允许你展示多张照片，重新排序，改变大小。 当我们选择导出的形式为 "Export Image and Silverlight Project" 时，这个 Project 可以生成一个完整的的可视化数据集，并准备开始使用 Silverlight2。这个 Project 包含了所有欲建立的程序所需的功能，你不需要再编写任何 .net 的 Silverlight 代码。 当导出完成，你可以在浏览器中预览 Silverlight 的应用。 第四步 - Silverlight Streaming 该应用大约 10MB。Windows Live Silverlight Streaming 服务能很好的解决部署 Silverlight 的问题。注册帐号：http://silverlight.live.com。 登录帐号 管理应用 点击上传应用 命名应用 创建 Manifest 文件 Zip 该应用 上传 获得 Iframe 代码 为了上传应用，你需要添加一个叫做 Manifest 的 XML 文件。它定义了该应用的属性，并且让 Silverlight 服务知道该如何处理该应用。这个是 Deep Zoom Composer 默认创建的代码： <SilverlightApp> <version>2.0</version> <source>DeepZoomOutput.xap</source> <width>800</width> <height>600</height> <background>gray</background> <isWindowless>false</isWindowless> </SilverlightApp> 这个文件需要放置在 DeepZoomOutput.xap 和GeneratedImages 文件夹旁边的 "C:\Users\***\Documents\Expression\Deep Zoom Composer Projects\LiveSideArticle\source images\OutputSdi\livesidearticle\DeepZoomOutput_Web\ClientBin" 文件夹中。压缩这三个项目至一个 Zip 文件。 上传该压缩文件至 Silverlight Streaming。当它上传完之后，你就能获得代码，并且有两个显示该应用的选项。 你可以通过点击 "Launch Application Test Page" 预览该应用。 第五步 - Virtual Earth 这最后一步就是在该真实地理位置上展示该 Deep Zoom 照片。这需要一个简单的 HTML 页面并插入一些 Virtual Earth 的 JavaScript。这可以在悬浮窗口上显示刚才的 Silverlight 应用。 你只需要改变下面代码的经度纬度以及 Silverlight 应用地址，或者通过 http://maps.live.com 手动获得位置： <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Silverlight Streaming Panoramas on Virtual Earth</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1"> </script> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0px; } .customInfoBox-body { width: 420px; height: 260px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; top: 0 !important; } .customInfoBox-shadow { width: 420px; height: 260px; } .customInfoBox-with-leftBeak { width: 0 !important; height: 0 !important; } .VE_Pushpin_Popup_Title { padding: 5px; } .VE_Pushpin_Popup_Body { text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; } </style> <script type="text/javascript"> var map = null; function GetMap() { map = new VEMap("myMap"); map.onLoadMap = onLoadMap; map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(-27.46212,153.03705) , 16 , VEMapStyle.Aerial , false , VEMapMode.Mode2D , false); } function onLoadMap() { map.ClearInfoBoxStyles(); var shape = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Pushpin , new VELatLong(-27.46212,153.03705)); shape.SetTitle(’The Story Bridge, Brisbane, Australia’); var desc = ‘<iframe src="’ + ‘http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/31868/LiveSideArticlePanorama/iframe.html"’ + ‘ scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style=’width:400px; height:200px’></iframe>’ shape.SetDescription(desc); shape.SetCustomIcon(’pin.png’); map.AddShape(shape); map.Pan(200,0); //The pan causes our infobox to close so we have to wait 2 secs setTimeout(function(){ if (shape) map.ShowInfoBox(shape)},2000); } </script> </head> <body onload="GetMap();"> <div id="myMap" style="position:relative; width:600px; height:600px;"></div> </body> </html></> 完成。 结论 这简单的五步就能完成这个很酷的应用，如：在博客中插入该 HTML，向好友们展示自己旅游的高质量照片。值得一用的功能。 LiveSide: Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live

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    Dew Drop - May 11, 2008

    http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2008/05/11/dew-drop-may-11-2008...
    5 days ago in Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew · Authority: 33

    .NET Prism, CAB, and WinForms Futures (Glenn Block) PowerShell In Praise of TypeConverters - Spread the Love (Jeffrey Snover) Miscellaneous Zune Clock Has Arrived (G. Andrew Duthie) Twitter This, Twitter That… (Rick Strahl) Turning Off Automatic Syncing in Zune - How’s It Done? (Mike Walsh) SlickEdit 2008 at First Glance (Dave Campbell) Hello World! (Chris Deluca) - A developer on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site begins blogging. Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live and First of Many New Live Developer Articles (John O’Brien) Wix Widgets, Some Ideas (Amit Knaani) Three Reasons to Use Disqus (Fred Wilson) My Verdict on Disqus: Two Thumbs Up (Matthew Ingram) Link Collections Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008 (Jason Haley) Links Today (2008-05-10) (Matt Hinze) LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof) Everyman Links for May 9, 2008 (Dave Burke) Book of the Day Professional SlickEdit (Programmer to Programmer): John Hurst: Books Technorati: .net development, patterns & practices, blogging, disqus, powershell