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FotoVision: New End-to-End .NET Smart Client Sample Application

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FotoVision has released to the web (thanks to Ed Kaim for drawing this to my attention). This is a fantastic new smart client application suite developed by Vertigo Software (some of the brightest developers I know, who were also responsible for the original release of IBuySpy, Quake II on .NET and many other Microsoft samples).

The application firstly allows you to organise and manipulate your photo collection using a Windows Forms application; it makes full use of the System.Drawing namespace and graphics support in the Base Class Libraries to allow photos to be resized, retinted and cropped - but it also extends these classes to provide advanced capabilities such as JPEG EXIF tag manipulation. The main feature is a web application that acts as a photo gallery along with a web service that allows the Windows Forms application to upload and synchronise photos with the gallery. This demonstrates many useful core concepts for web applications including secure secret storage and anti-spam devices. Lastly there's a Pocket PC application that provides an alternative way to manipulate the web service.

Not only is the application one of the sweetest looking that I've seen, the full source code is available for download, inspection and modification, along with three white papers (one for each application) - and of course it's all free.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who shares their family photos on the web. I've used the Rebex Image Gallery control until now, since it's a nice little ASP.NET control that pre-caches thumbnail images, but it's not perfect for my needs. I'll certainly be playing around with FotoVision and hope to have it up and running in the next couple of weeks for my own site. A great application - the Vertigo team have done it again!

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  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2004
    A new end-end .net smart client application, FotoVision, has been released to the web. [Tim Sheath] Also developed by Vertigo Software that developed the IssueVision and IBuySpy samples (and several other stuff like the ASP.NET starter kits) and I also learned today they were responsible for porting Quake II to .NET.
  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2004
    Woohoo, its great, got it working in minutes and uploaded to my photo site. This is going to be so much easier to manage than MSN groups for my photos, I never got round to writing my version which was going to be similar, perhaps I will use this as a base, once I've converted it to c# ;-)

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2004
    I've been meaning to get around to learning some of that graphics manipulation stuff. Looks like prodding around this thing might be a good start. Unless somebody out there can recommend something else ( send any suggestions through http://ghostdev.ca/contact.aspx )
  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2004
    Thanks for the note on DROP_SHADOW windows style when running on Win2000. The minimum requires was decided to be XP but that's not mentioned or enforced. It would be nice to make it work on previous version of Windows also. We rebuilt the sample and a new version should be posted on the FotoVision site that checks for XP before using the DROP_SHADOW style. Thanks again,
    - ralph
  • Anonymous
    July 02, 2004
    C# version would be cool.

    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2005
    I wonder how this compares to SPGM?
    http://spgm.sourceforge.net/
  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2006
    From the capable group at Vertigo Software (the same folks who produced the venerable IBuySpy and Quake