Wednesday, March 7, 2012  Using SeaDragon Ajax to Display
DeepZoom Content in Windows8 Apps  Download sample project
MultiScaleImage was introduced in Silverlight 2 and offered
great power to manipulate high resolution images on the web.
Unfortunately MultiScaleImage control is not yet available to
Windows 8 developers as of Consumer Preview. DeepZoom or
SeaDragon research project cuts images into smaller pyramid of
lower resolution tiles, and smartly brings down only the tile
suitable for the current display. So a viewer can be built in
virtually any technology. Microsoft provides a JavaScript viewer
for DeepZoom content. The JavaScript implementation has limited
features and does not support image collections and sparse
images, but works very well with single images.  Using SeaDragon
Ajax in Windows 8 HTML5 apps is straightforward except for few
hacks to work around the security restrictions and environment
difference from the browser environment.  First you need to get
the source from and note that you ca