Showing off your photos is a lot harder than it should be. Vertigo tackled this
problem during our latest exploration of Microsoft's Silverlight technology. By
design, Silverlight enables us to build very rich interactive applications that
improve people's experience working with media such as digital photos.
We're proud to announce the release of Slide.Show, a Silverlight 1.0 application
open to the public — the source is available on CodePlex. Slide.Show shows
off some of the latest Silverlight technologies while also providing an elegant
and simple photo sharing user experience.
Features
- Minimal setup and configuration
required to embed in any page
- Can be sized to fit any design
and is even
resizable for fluid layouts
- Full-screen and embedded modes
- Slideshow data from XML, Flickr,
or your own custom provider
- Auto-playback with multiple
transitions (e.g. fade, shape, slide, wipe, etc.)
- Plug and play with hundreds
of color, font, size, position, and behavior options
- 100% customizable via XML or
JavaScript
- Cross-browser (IE 6/7/8, Firefox
2/3, Safari 2/3 ... PC and Mac)
- Supports Silverlight 1 and 2
- Architected for open source
extensibility (e.g. object-oriented JavaScript, configuration/data provider model,
user controls, modular, commented code, etc.)
The Goods
Quotes
- “I followed the instructions
in the Quick Start Guide and had my slide show up and running within
about 10 minutes”
- Mike Swanson
- “great for professional photographers
looking to show off their high quality pictures”
- Donald Burnett
- “I just wanted to put a slideshow
with some pictures of my dog and my house in the snow on the interweb. The hardest
thing was selecting the pictures, putting some cool captions in the data file and
waiting while they uploaded.”
- Slide.Show user
- ”Great control. Thanks. It took
about 30 minutes to set up and have the images pulled from a database.”