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Visifire – Open Source Data Visualization Component

Saif — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:29:31 +0000

Visifire, an open source data visualization component powered by Silverlight and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). Using the same API, charts in both Silverlight & WPF environments can be created within minutes.

Features:

Visually Stunning Animated Charts
Single API for both Silverlight™ & WPF
Embed into Desktop or Web Applications
Compatible with Microsoft^® Expression^® Blend™
Real time Charts / Live Update
Independent of server side technology
Supports Wide Range of Charts

The great feature about this component is the flexibility to use any server side technology like ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML.

Website: http://www.visifire.com

Download: http://www.visifire.com/download_silverlight_charts.php

PhotoZoom – Photos Zoom hands with Microsoft

Saif — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:55:38 +0000

photoZoom is a tool that is being created in laboratories mslivelabs and that Microsoft can create a photo album with resources to zoom in on images of the same.

PhotoZoom makes it easy for anyone to create zooming albums from their uploaded photos. It is an experimental site, developed at Microsoft, that uses the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 2.

At the moment the minimalist look is so painful, possibly, yes, moving between photos previously extended by dragging the mouse over them.

Website: http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/

Enjoy Rich Internet Experiences with JavaFX

Saif — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:30:55 +0000

JavaFX is a rich client platform, integrated with Java Runtime, that you can create and deliver rich internet experiences.

It is the a combination of a scripting language: JavaFX Script, a rich client platform and set of tools for a productive and collaborative developer-designer workflow.

You can refer JavaFX as alternative for Flash & Silverlight.

JavaFX platform currently consists:

NetBeans IDE 6.5 for JavaFX 1.0 (development environment)
JavaFX 1.0 Production Suite (a set of tools & Photoshop & Illustrator pluging allowing graphics to be exported to JavaFX applications)

JavaFX can run on millions of devices including desktop, browsers, mobile devices & more as it requires Java Runtime which is ready on many environments.

Requirements: Java Runtime

Website: http://www.javafx.com/

Demo: http://www.javafx.com/samples

Open Zoom – An Open Source Framework for UI

Saif — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:45:05 +0000

OpenZoom is an open source framework used for creating zoomable user interfaces.

The power behind OpenZoom is Flex MultiScaleImage component, which is built on top of the OpenZoom framework.

Name and working of OpenZoom is Similar to Silverlight’s Deep Zoom control.

The component has built-in support for keyboard / mouse activities & supports Deep Zoom, Zoomify & OpenZoom images.

For now, OpenZoom can sound to specific, but considering its abilities & usage areas, we’ll probably be hearing more about it soon.

Deep Zoom Images With Seadragon Ajax

Saif — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:47:09 +0000

Seadragon is a technology, by Microsoft, for deeply zooming images of any size. It provides almost perfect transitions independent from the sizes of the images.

Seadragon Ajax is an interface for using/embedding this technology to any website.

Seadragon can be used in 2 ways:

By uploading images to Photozoom & use Embed Builder
Compose a deep zoom image with Deep Zoom Composer & upload the images to your website

Developers can customize viewers & controls with the Seadragon Ajax Library. It is also available at the Silverlight platform.