Slapping a Photo Gallery Together in ASP.NET Part I
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You have a pile of photos that everyone is dying to see. While you could just upload them to a photo gallery on the Web, you're not happy about the various restrictions involved (such as bandwidth and Web space). You would like to create your own photo gallery, but you don't want to spend a lot of time or effort on it. This article, the first of two parts, shows how to throw a photo gallery together fairly quickly using ASP.NET.
Back to Work
What’s worse: going to back to work after a well-deserved vacation or keeping your friends and relatives - keen to catch a glimpse of the beautiful pictures that you've clicked on your vacation - at bay?
Well, I do not have an answer to the first problem; I'm pretty sure that no one does. But, I can surely suggest a viable solution for the second: upload the photographs to the World Wide Web. This way, everyone can view the photographs at their own leisure and you can avoid having to flip through them for every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to see them.
There are numerous websites that allow users to upload photographs and organize them into albums, making it easy for everyone to view them. However, each of them come with their own little caveats. Some restrict the amount of Web space (digital photographs can guzzle up disk space very quickly) for your albums, while others restrict the amount of bandwidth that you can utilize and, more often than not, this results in your online galleries being disabled for long periods of time.
That’s where this article comes in. During the course of this two part series, I'll attempt to teach how to develop a basic, functional online photo gallery using ASP.NET. Fortunately, for you and me, the .NET platform is equipped with a bunch of useful classes that make the task of managing folders and files (including image files) on the server very easy.
Let’s get the show on the road, shall we?
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