Microsoft Silverlight is the new product they introduced for rich interactive web application developments. In previous topics I introduced how you can use Ajax technologies for rich web application development. We use Ajax technologies to introduce JavaScript and call server calls through JavaScript to minimize page refresh. With this method we can save lot of page refreshes but we might face some difficulties in developing Ajax enable applications when we go for complex applications. Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. With Silverlight you can build web or mobile applications very similar to desktop application developments. You know that we have much more freedom with desktop application to use complex controls. But with web application we have some limitations due to the technologies use, bandwidth, security issues...etc. The objective of Silverlight is like run desktop like application on the web or mobile browser.  But this doen't mean that Silverlight is for web or mobile application developments. You can use Silverlight for desktop applications, but here I will more concentrate on how to develop rich interactive web or mobile applications using Silverlight.

Seadragon service enables web experience to browse graphics and images very smoothly regardless of the amount of data or the bandwidth and network traffic. Using Seadragon service you can make your photo album, photo sharing ...etc online without writing single line of code. First you need have your images host on the Internet and valid URLs for them. Then simply submit those image URLs to Seadragon.com site.

Here is the example work I did. Click here

You can see that the original image host in this blog site. I have given the URL of that image to Seadragon.com and create my album. If you load the original image and Seadragon album you can see that how smoothly you can browse images using Seadragon. Also if you need to embed the Seadragon album into your page you can generate embedded code for your created album.