At MIX08 one of the projects I helped along the way was the Hard Rock Memorabilia site developed by Vertigo to show off the Deep Zoom capabilities in Silverlight. These are the guys who also released the great Silverlight Codeplex Slide.Show project that I’ve used a couple of times.

Silverlight + Seadragon = Deep Zoom

What I discovered recently is that they’ve shared another project on Codeplex to help make your life easier. This one is called BigPicturetm and it helps by providing a lot of the basic framework for building a Silverlight Deep Zoom app. Now you still need to get your hands dirty with the Deep Zoom Composer and Visual Studio… but this gives you a real headstart.

BTW while we’re on the subject Jon Galloway (also from Vertigo) has written a great breakdown on how Deep Zoom compares to some other solutions and fellow evangelists Laurence Moroney and Jaime Rodriguez (both far cleverer than I) have posted some great write-ups on how to develop Deep Zoom apps in Silverlight.

If you build (or know of) a cool Deep Zoom sample please share it in the comments here.