Pentabyte Gallery

Description

The Image Gallery is a full-featured ASP.NET server control to browse file-based picture-albums. You can place it within one of your existing ASP pages. Since it has the nature of a server control, you could even place two galleries on one page. Each of them can be browsed independently.
Development has been discontinued. Please check out the source code yourself. Feel free to modify and use it.

Download

Download:Pentabyte.WebControls v1.08 44kB (freeware) - sources
terms and conditions of use

Main features:

ASP.NET 2.0 server control
file system based
thumbnail caching strategy
custom css styling
quick Navigation in popup-window
supports alpha-channel (transparent) watermark image
image order form for commercial purposes available (attribut: EnableOrderForm)
popup window generates an image that adapts to the window
supported picture file formats: JPG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG
text based navigation -> apply your own css design

Manual:

(1) Copy "Pentabyte.WebControls.dll" into the "Bin" - directory of your ASP.NET 2.0 web application. Create the "Bin" - directory first, in case it does not exist yet

(2) Add ThumbHandler to your web.config file:

(3) Register the Class in your aspx - page:

<%@ Register Namespace="Pentabyte.WebControls" TagPrefix="Pentabyte" Assembly="Pentabyte.WebControls" %>

(4) Place gallery control to your aspx - page. Needs to be within the first FORM tag.

(5) Done ! Now create subdirectories and lots of pictures within the directory of your aspx - page. (or in whatever directory you like, just make sure to set the "RootDirectory" then)

Gallery Tag Attributes

Attribute	type	default	description
AllowOriginal	boolean	true	allows the display of a link to the original image
Columns	integer	4	maximum of thumbnails in one row
EnableOrderForm	boolean	false	Adds a contact/order form to the detail view of each image (SMTP atttributes must be set)
FolderStyleClass	string	""	css style for the directories relates to <table> html tag
ExcludeDirectories	string	""	defines forbidden directory names in addition to: "_Thumbs\|_notes_\|App_\|Bin" separator: "\|" pipe wildcard: "" astarisk in case you don't want any subdirectories at all, set property to *
Language	enumeration	en	en, de, fr, nl
LicenceKey	String	""	leave empty for freeware version a licenced control will not diplay any copyright information
OrderBy	String	Name	Name : File Name Created : date of creation
Paging	boolean	true	if false, then all thumbnails are displayed on one page
PopupWidth	integer	800	bounding box of picture dimensions
PopupHeight	integer	600	bounding box of picture dimensions
PopupScaling	boolean	true	If you don't care about the popup-image fitting the popup window, then set this to false. As to your advantage, no scaling will affect the image quality.
ReverseOrder	boolean	false	display files in reverse order ? see also: OrderBy
RootDirectory	string	"."	defaults to the current script-directory. can be set to a relative path on the webserver or to an absolute path in the file-system (interesting in combination with a watermark-image to hide the original images from the internet user)
Rows	integer	4	maximum of thumbnails in one column
SMTPhost	string	""	IP or hostname of mail server
SMTPuser	string	""	e-mail account username
SMTPpassword	string	""	e-mail account password
SMTPrecipient	string	""	e-mail address requests / orders will be sent to
TableStyleClass	string	""	css style for the gallery relates to <table> html tag
ThumbnailStyleClass	string	""	css style for the images relates to <img> html tag
ThumbnailWidth	integer	125	bounding box of thumbnail dimensions
ThumbnailHeight	integer	125	bounding box of thumbnail dimensions
WatermarkImage	string	""	name of transparent image file in the RootDirectory that overlays the popup image (32bit PNG recommended)
ZoomToFit	boolean	true	should small pictures be zoomed in popup-window ?