The always informative Mike Taulty gave an excellent talk at the UK Silverlight User Group in London on Thursday, called "No Silverlight Application is an Island". I often looks at Mike's video synopsis and think that I have that all covered, but then he nearly always throws in something that is surprising and useful. The video is available here: http://blogs.conchango.com/michelleflynn/archive/2008/08/18/silverlight-user-group-2.aspx  Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: Silverlight

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If you have used the Deep Zoom Composer to generate a Silverlight project, then one thing you may notice is that your users can zoom out so far that they can't see anything!  It is actually quite easy to lose the image completely and not be able to get back to seeing anything.  Alternatively you may want to restrict how far they can zoom in too, so they don't start to see "blocky" images. A simple fix for this is to modify the Zoom method in Page.Xaml.cs with the following:   public void Zoom(double zoom, Point pointToZoom) ...