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Deep Zoom Batch Export using C# - Update

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In a previous post I’ve showed how to automate the exporting process of a DeepZoom composition or collection. Meanwhile the Microsoft DeepZoom Composer tool has been updated (and new features have been added too!), breaking my previous sample.

Given the positive feedbacks I received from the previous post, I’ve decided to do some refactoring and updates to the previous solution. The current implementation include:

  1. Class Library: it encapsulate all the wrapping methods of the SparseImageTool.
  2. Test Project: it shows how to use the library. The library can be used from WindowsForms/WPF/ASP.NET….as long as the machine has the SparseImageTool installed.

You can download the updated library and source code here.

The new class diagram is like so:

ClassDiagram

Given a directory containing all the images and a name for the collection, it’s now really easy to create programmatically a collection.

    1: static void CreateCollection(string collectionName, string sourceImagesFolder, string outputFolder)

    2:         {

    3:             // Create a collection converter

    4:             CollectionConverter collectionConverter = new CollectionConverter();

    5:             // Required parameters

    6:             collectionConverter.SparseImageToolPath = GetSparseImageToolPath();

    7:             collectionConverter.ImagesCollection = GetImages(sourceImagesFolder); // IEnumerable<string> containing the path of the images

    8:             collectionConverter.ImagesDestinationFolder = outputFolder;

    9:             // Optional parameters

   10:             collectionConverter.CollectionName = collectionName;

   11:             collectionConverter.CollectionFormat = CollectionConverter.CollectionFormats.XML;

   12:             //collectionConverter.ConvertedOverlapPixels = ...

   13:             //collectionConverter.ConvertedTileSize = ...

   14:             //TODO: You can customize the exporting experience here, by setting the according parameters such as:

   15:             // Tile Size, File Format, Collection Format, Compression, Quality, ...

   16:  

   17:             // Attach to completion handler

   18:             collectionConverter.BatchCompleted += delegate

   19:              {

   20:                  Console.WriteLine("Conversion completed\nPRESS <ENTER> TO EXIT");

   21:              };

   22:  

   23:             try

   24:             {

   25:                 collectionConverter.BatchCollectionExport();

   26:             }

   27:             catch (Exception e)

   28:             {

   29:                 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);

   30:             }

   31:  

   32:             Console.WriteLine("Conversion started...");

   33:             Console.ReadLine();

   34:         }

You can download the updated library and source code here.

Have fun!

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2008
    I don't know how to use the output of this library. Isn't there a metadata.xml missing?

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2008
    The output of the library is the same as if exported from DeepZoom Composer. You will then need to create a Silverlight app to show the composition. G.

  • Anonymous
    October 14, 2008
    Hello Giorgio Sardo. Thanks for the good article. I have a problem with this. I trying to use your program on my asp.net web server. when I'm testing on my WebDev Server(VS 2008) it works fine. but on my IIS(IIS7.0 ,windows server 2008). it doesn't works. I tried on three ways.

  1. web.cofig system.web identity impersonate true
  2. machine.config processModel change username
  3. give a 'xml and sparseimagetool' access authority to asp.net user(NETWORK SERVICE and etc) but still don't know why. can't figure out. I'm struggling about 3days on this. could you give me a any advice? It will helps me a lot. thank you