Real-time image slicing for Deep Zoom and Silverlight 4

Question

Is there an example where the Deep Zoom images will prepare dynamically in real time? Is it even possible with Silverlight 4? So basically, whatever the Deep Zoom composer is doing under the hood should happen in real-time, on demand...

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible to generate deep zoom files on the fly. Obviously, this has to happen on the server-side, for the client-side Silverlight app to consume it.

The google keywords you're looking for is "deep zoom batch" or "deep zoom export" or "DeepZoomTools.dll".

This is not an officially supported scenario (afaik), but it is definitely possible. The more recent the blog post, the more likely you are to get this to work.

Here are some blog posts that have worked for me at one point or another:
Deep Zoom Batch Processing using DeepZoomTools.dll
Deep Zoom Batch Export using C# - Update
Deep Zoom Image Generation with DeepZoomTools.DLL