Getting the Windows Phone Blog Rolling with Image Zooming

source: blog.chevonchristie.com

One of my biggest frustrations with Windows Phone has been getting an image to zoom somewhat smoothly in an app, as well as behave the way a user would expect it to. Attempts have been made to remedy this problem, most notably the MultiTouchBehavior, which is available on codeplex. However, none of the attempts proved, based on my judgement, satisfactory (until now of course). In my rampant search to find a "good" image zooming implementation, akin to what is experienced in the Windows Phone web browser and other native apps, I stumbled upon the IndexOutRange blog, where another dev has taken what I consider a successful stab at the problem. How I missed it before? I don't know. But once I saw it, I used it as a jumping off point and made zooming even easier to work with.

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