It has been a while now that Windows Azure got released and I have been exploring it for quite sometime too. Recently I had this burning desire to try Azure Blob storage and was going through some thoughts and then I decided- Would it not be great if I can compose a Deep Zoom image and deploy it in Azure Blob storage and access it from my Silverlight application. Since I went through a bit of digging myself in doing this, I thought I would just show this in a few short and simple steps for ... [Read more]

  Behaviors and triggers are two cool features in Silverlight 3. They allow to declaratively associate and action with an event or property value. It is implemented as a combination of a Component + an attached property. The framework provides the logic of attaching/detaching behaviors. The behavior exists as a separate piece of code and hence can be easily reused on similar components on which the behavior is authored.  Due to the integration of behaviors inside Blend, designers can easily app ... [Read more]

Progressive zoom is a technology provided by Deep Zoom, available in Silverlight as a MultiScaleImage . This enables Silverlight developers to render images with very large resolution whilst addressing performance constraints imposed by the client / server delivery model. MultiScaleImage does not provide a reasonable way to navigate to an image and this makes implementation of many interesting design scenarios slow. We designed a MultiScaleSelection Control which is described here which addr ... [Read more]