Using Microsoft Pivot to Show Genealogical Content

Pivot relies on DeepZoom (Microsoft’s technology formerly known as SeaDragon: http://zoom.it/) to provide a smooth zooming experience. For the Silverlight PivotView experience this is done with the built-in MultiScaleImage control. Because of this, the images for a Pivot collection are stored in the Deep Zoom hierarchical tile file structure. This consists of a root-level XML file (usually with a .dzc extension) that refers to a set of nested image-level XML files (usually with a .dzi extension). Each of these files keeps track of the many image tiles that make up an image pyramid for a single item in the collection. See http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/collection-image-content/ for more details. Pivot uses HTTP as its transport layer. This makes it available through the web, not blocked by firewalls or other online hurdles.