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10/18/2008Deep Zoom was released by Microsoft a while ago. It is a feature that is being promoted with Silverlight 2.0 (which is now released, download Silverlight 2.0). Deep Zoom allows you to do, well, exactly that. Zoom in and see very detailed images. To view a Deep Zoom image you do need to have Silverlight already installed. Here is a great video that shows you what it does: Virtual Earth using Deep Zoom Another fun one is the Hard Rock Memorabilia site. You can read more about Deep Zoom on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site below. Deep Zoom You can also download the Deep Zoom Composer here: Deep Zoom Composer 10/7/2008 On October 6th, the Mono Project finally released version 2.0. So what is Mono and why should you care? Well, Mono allows for Microsoft .NET Framework based applications to be run on non-Windows based Operating Systems like Mac, Linux, BSD and many others (here is a list of support OSes). The reason why you should care is that this can dramatically reduce your costs for things like webhosting. So no longer can Microsoft bashers say that Microsoft .NET will only run on Windows.
Now, Mono is designed to work against the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and is not 100% compatible. While Microsoft has currently released three updates to the .NET Framework since then (3.0, 3.5, and 3.5 SP1). Another thing about Mono is the it is sponsored by Novell and is an open source project. I am definitely looking forward to working with Mono. The Mono Project |
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