Please read and write XML using the proper XML read/write functions. Every major language should now already have proper classes or utilities to read and write XML. Therefore an XML chunk of.

<root>
      <branch>some node</branch>
</root>

should be no different to

<root><branch>some node</branch></root>

since they're exactly the same XML, but if you weren't using a proper XML reader function to read it, but instead waited for a new line, then obviously you wouldn't get the value you wanted in the 2nd chunk.

so please, use the proper functions when you're dealing with XML!

After reading about Deep Zoom Collections I quickly converted the WZ montage to a collection to see how well it worked out. The immediate thing I noticed was that the collection was much smaller, 27MB instead of 75MB.

So immediately I uploaded the ZIP file into Silverlight Streaming, but I was presented with an Invalid Filetype error. Some snooping around found me the solution which was to remove all .SDI files from the images folder and viola..

A better sized WZ Deep Zoom Montage, hopefully the next time I put up a DeepZoom image, it'll have better controls in place :P

WZ and his toys. One kid and most of everything he plays with.

What's WZ looking at?

Staring at the world that awaits him, full of wonders, of surprises, of dirty floors so he can't go out till he learns to wear his shoes!

The joys of having an SLR.. having the performance to snap more than 1 pic per second. The downside? Lots and lots of unwanted pics to weed out.

That's what WZ does a lot now, point then say "yarg!"

YaY!

The local launch event for the 2k8 suite of apps. ie. Visual Studio 2k8, Windows Server 2k8 and SQL Server 2k8. Is happening next Tuesday, register now to try and snag some nice freebies! And of course to learn more about the apps lar.