One of the biggest changes made to the Composer is the new Export UI, witch provides the option of exporting a composition as a Seadragon Ajax project. This will allow you to use the Deep Zoom functionality through javascript.
This version of Deep Zoom Composer is now using a managed DLL instead of the command line tools SparseImageTools.exe and ImageTool.exe. A new project template is also available and numerous bug fixes made.
You can download this new version here.
The Patterns and Practices team over at Microsoft had a new version release of their Enterprise Library framework in 27th October with some new features. Here's what's new in the 4.1 version:
- Unity interception mechanism and integration of the Policy Injection
- Application Block with the Unity Application Block
- Added support for generics in the Unity Application Block
- Added support for arrays in the Unity Application Block
- Performance improvements
- Usability improvements to the configuration tool
- Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 support
- Bug fixes
This version of EntLib has version 1.2 of Unity. If don't know what Unity...
On the second PDC 2008 day I got to register for the Azure services platform, and I've been accepted for testing the platform enviroment. For those who don't know what Azure is, or if you think Azure is a new operative system, you should read this:
The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. Azure’s flexible and interoperable platform can be used to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications...