Deep Zoom as a Code Visualizer

One of the cooler pieces of Silverlight 2 is the Deep Zoom Composer which allows an easy way to display high-resolution images. The ubiquitous Hard Rock Memorabilia site is an excellent example of its use. As its adoption grows, other, more interesting, applications have been developed. One really good one is Zoomery, which is using the technology as a code visualizer. The ability to quickly scan through the class diagrams and embedding notes directly within them is brilliant.

Oftentimes, Silverlight gets a bad rap as a Flash clone but this innovation illustrates (quite literally) it can be very original as well. I hope it continues to get Microsoft and third-party development and support.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Release

Microsoft has release Silverlight v.2!

You can download the new version from silverlight.net at or you can download it directly from Microsoft download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en

To get started, here is a video posted on Channel 9 with Scott Gu giving a demo of the new version:

Scott Guthrie: Building a Silverlight 2 application


Also, check out the Silverlight 2 End to End Tutorial: Building a Digg Search Client available from Scott Gu's blog. It's a great way to get experience. You can read all about it here.