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Dan Cory replied on December 16, 2009 16:52 to the question "Formatted DateTime FacetCategory for Year is causing an error" in Live Labs Pivot:

If it's just a year, then you should probably use Number with a format string of "###0". That's what Product Year in Concept Cars does.

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Dan Cory replied on December 15, 2009 18:16 to the problem "Image Reference Failing" in Live Labs Pivot:

Make sure you have Deep Zoom Composer set to "Export as a collection (multiple images)".

Also, if you are just typing a path to your collection into the Pivot title bar, you may be having problems with special characters in filenames. You really need to put your content on to an HTTP server to test it properly.

If neither of those help, you can try posting the first dozen lines of your .xml file to this forum.

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Dan Cory replied on December 14, 2009 17:05 to the idea "Provision to import collection data from a csv file" in Live Labs Pivot:

You can load a CSV in Excel, then make it a table. Add a column named "Image Location" and put the paths to the images. Other special but optional column names are Preview, Name, Href, Description, Copyright, Related, Id, Tags.

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Dan Cory replied on December 09, 2009 17:22 to the question "How to handle the numerous image files on the server?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

See http://seadragon.com/developer/creati... for some ideas

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Dan Cory replied on December 07, 2009 18:19 to the problem "Possible memory leak in DZConvert utility" in Live Labs Pivot:

DeepZoomTools will use whatever memory it has available during the conversion, but it will all get released eventually.

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Dan Cory replied on December 04, 2009 23:11 to the praise "Awesome new possibilities!" in Live Labs Pivot:

Pretty cool! A few suggestions:
1. Interests is misspelled
2. Birth Date = Unknown should be left out.
3. Birth Dates should probably be a DateTime facet. You can just pick a year to put all the dates in (preferably one with a leap year), then set up your formatting to not show the year. But at least it would then sort correctly and you could filter on date ranges.
4. One of my friends had ----- as their political views and that cause you to output bad XML. You should use an XML class like XMLWriter or LinqToXml and not try to write XML as text.
5. Make each person in Pivot link back to their Facebook account.
Dan Cory replied on December 04, 2009 19:55 to the idea "Pivot Collection SDK Released" in Live Labs Pivot:

I posted further comments in the CodePlex project: http://pivotcollectiontools.codeplex....

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Dan Cory replied on December 04, 2009 19:32 to the idea "Pivot Collection SDK Released" in Live Labs Pivot:

SurrogateImageInfo was not meant to be left public. Use Image.

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Dan Cory replied on December 04, 2009 16:50 to the idea "Pivot Collection SDK Released" in Live Labs Pivot:

You used Deep Zoom Tools a little oddlly - don't use SurrogateImageInfo, just use Image. I'll try to make the change on codeplex today.

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Dan Cory replied on November 30, 2009 18:00 to the question "Custom DZ source for collection" in Microsoft Live Labs:

No this isn't possible in Silverlight 2 & 3. To help future planning, please tell us why you'd like to do this. Do you have another format for collections defined? If so, why?

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Dan Cory replied on November 19, 2009 04:52 to the problem "Pivot collection tool requires all images have unique name" in Live Labs Pivot:

Yes, unique filenames are required for the tool. You can download the files yourself and give them unique names, then create the collection from those files.

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Dan Cory replied on November 02, 2009 23:16 to the problem "Seadragon conversion error for large file" in Microsoft Live Labs:

We don't accumulate JPEG artifacts as we build images.

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Dan Cory replied on November 02, 2009 20:18 to the question "Does the Deep Zoom Composer retain ICC Color Profiles?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Deep Zoom is optimized for all its content to be as close to display output as possible. Therefore, Deep Zoom images and collections should all be in sRGB space. Deep Zoom Composer will convert from whatever color space the input image has to sRGB.

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Dan Cory replied on October 12, 2009 22:02 to the question "How to Increase DPI of Deep Zoom Tools Output Images?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Deep Zoom will not display images correctly if they have a DPI other than 96. Therefore, DeepZoomTools does a bit of work to force the output to 96 DPI.

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Dan Cory replied on September 18, 2009 22:12 to the question "DeepZoomTools.dll -> Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F05" in Microsoft Live Labs:

My guess is that this is fixed in the latest WIC codecs for Windows 7. You can try the beta of the "Platform Update for Windows Vista" which is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...

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Dan Cory replied on September 17, 2009 16:07 to the question "DeepZoomTools.dll -> Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F05" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Can you put a link to the image into http://seadragon.com and let us know if it works? If not, post the code back here and we can try to investigate the image.

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Dan Cory replied on December 15, 2008 18:38 to the question "required number of texture blend stages (4) not supported" in Microsoft Live Labs:

The latest version of Photosynth now supports having fewer texture blend stages. We believe the following cards should now work, but haven't been able to test them throughly:
Matrox G400, G450, G550
Via/S3 Unichrome

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A comment on the problem "blue screen" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Dell has two driver updates for this configuration, but they may already be installed:
http://support.dell.com/support/downl...
http://support.dell.com/support/downl...

If that doesn't work, you can try the driver direct from ATI:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_cat...

Let us know if that fixes it! – Dan Cory, on December 11, 2008 18:12
A comment on the problem "blue screen" in Microsoft Live Labs:

We'll try to speak "solving blue screen for dummies".
What operating system do you have? Windows XP or Vista?
What video card do you have? If you don't know, right click on the desktop. In Vista, choose Personalize, then Display Settings. In XP, choose Display Settings. You should have a dialog with a monitor tab and there is a drop down that says "monitor name on video card name". Post that string (a picture of the dialog would be fine). – Dan Cory, on December 09, 2008 23:37
Dan Cory replied on November 24, 2008 18:23 to the question "What about SeaDragon?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

You can also check out Seadragon Ajax:
http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/

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