Description:

A set of Graffiti CMS plugins that render a Silverlight photo gallery on a post page. They use the the open source Slide.Show Silverlight photo gallery control.

The project currently contains three photo gallery plugins. The difference is in where they get the photos from:

1. Slide.Show Photo Gallery Plugin - This plugin looks for photos in folders on the web server.
2. Flickr Slide.Show Photo Gallery Plugin - This plugin uses the Flickr API to retrieve photos from a user acount on Flickr. Flickr sets are displayed as albums in the gallery.
3. Picasa Slide.Show Photo Gallery Plugin - This plugin uses the Picasa API to retrieve photos from a user acount on Google Picasa Web Albums. Albums in Picasa are displayed as albums in the gallery.

The Road Ahead:

• I would like to expand the folder-based plugin to automatically create and use thumbnails for faster loading time. The current source code contains some thumbnail code that is not used in the initial version, as I wasn't sure what size to make them.
• I'd also love to have the folder-based plugin read title/description/date from the EXIF info embedded in some image files. Built-in support for reading EXIF was added to the .NET 3.5 framework, but I would probably need to use a third party library to make the plugin .NET 2.0 compatible. I'm considering offering two versions/downloads of the project - one for .NET 2.0 and an improved version for folk able to run their sites on a server with .NET 3.5 installed.
• There are hundreds of undocumented configuration options in the Slide.Show control. Once these get documented, it would be great to have some kind of dynamic admin UI or wizard to let users change the photo gallery UI without having to manually modify the modules XML.

If you are a developer who is interested in contributing to this plugin, please contact Kevin Harder.

Credits:

• Slide.Show Silverlight control originally developed by Vertigo Software
• Slide.Show is now an open source project on Microsoft CodePlex
• Slide.Show Picasa data provider script (how the Picasa plugin calls the Picasa API) was written by Wesley Riley