Creating Deep Zoom applications with C#

April 26th, 2009

Today I was again working with my entry for WinPhp competition. Now with a key feature – Microsoft Deep Zoom.
To start with, there are many ways how Deep Zoom application can be created. As I have written before here, easiest way is to use Deep Zoom Composer. However, I want to use it as a [...]

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Dynamic Assemblies loading using Reflection

April 24th, 2009

Tuesday I’ve posted post how to use .Net assemblies in PHP, however, as Teal’c correctly pointed out:
Making your library COM visible requires that you register the DLL in the GAC and registering something in the GAC should only be done when multiple applications need to access the same version of the same library. Even then, [...]

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Using PHP with C# written libraries

April 22nd, 2009

One of the biggest issue for me in WinPHP challenge (more info) is using C# written libraries in PHP. Actual PHP part is very easy to write, because only thing you need to do is to create COM object. However, making your dll’s visible by PHP is a bit tricky.
I followed this tutorial, which [...]

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Setting up Windows for PHP server

April 21st, 2009

To start with, all work took about 1:30, including Skype distractions, reading how-to’s, etc. Only one problem I had is that I was given remote desktop connection access to Windows Server 2008 machine, but I’m working with Linux. How to connect to remote desktop from Linux?
Luckily, I had Windows XP in VirtualBox so I tried [...]

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First Annual WinPHP Challenge

April 20th, 2009

Sometime in the end of March Microsoft and partners announced 2009 WinPHP competition. I always wanted to try to create an app with both PHP and C#, so I decided to register – my idea is to create a project, which will demonstrate both PHP and .NET connectivity and Deep Zoom functionality.
My project will allow [...]

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