ASP.NET BLOB & Thumbnail Controls 2.1.0.5
ASP.NET BLOB & THUMBNAIL CONTROLS.
A set of ASP.NET server controls for developing SQL BLOB & Thumbnail related web applications in the most efficient, organized and object oriented manner without requiring you writing any codes or ashx http handler files. A set of controls: BlobImageButton, BlobImage, BlobThumbnail, BlobIFrame, BlobButton, BlobHyperlink. BlobImageButton, inherited from ImageButton, will behave exactly like a standard image button with extra byte[] type property named BlobData. The image will be rendered from the value of this byte[] property instead of ImageURL property. Also you can display the image as a thumbnail by setting a checkbox. BlobThumbnail Control will display a thumbnail and clicking the thumbnail will show a popup window with the full sized image or prompt Download dialog box. BlobButton and BlobHyperlink controls are used to display a Download prompt/dialog to download the byte[] content as a file. You can program those controls to create a secured download link so that your visitor won't see the real location of the file in your server, good for developers who are selling digital Products like eBooks or softwares. SpiceLogic BLOB & Thumbnail Control suit will not only display your Images directly from your SQL Blob, but also it will create Thumbnails on the fly. The power of this control is its BLOB 2 way data binding feature. Now, you can simply bind the byte[] BlobData property of this control to your VarBinary or any byte[] datatype of your DataSource and place this control in your DataBound Container Control like GridView or DetailsView. You can also Update/Insert new Blob records using this control (Setting Upload Mode=true). UploadMode will show a Upload form element and upload button element, and that gives you the power to upload files directly to the BlobData property. This control never creates any temporary file in your server so you won't need to worry about setting any WRITE permission to your web folders. A very straight forward and friendly control.
You are an ASP.NET Developer and you are very much fond of binary data, you realized that, keeping your images and other files in the SQL Server (or any database) BLOB type field is very much organizing. Yes, thats right. But when you needed to render your binary data directly from the SQL Server (or any database) BLOB type field to your ASP.NET page, you got headache. You needed to write many lines of codes to create an ASHX handler file and then, called that handler from your image control's source property. Its fine when you got only one instance of the image to display. What about if you need to show many images something like using DataGridView. Also when you need to provide your user a hyperlink so that when the hyperlink is clicked, the file download prompt should appear and the file content should be the content from your databse's BLOB field, you got headache. You thought, why there is no Control same like Image Control with a property of type byte[] so that you could directly bind that BLOB field of your database to the byte[] property of that control !!! It is a set of ASP.NET server controls for developing SQL BLOB & Thumbnail related web applications in the most efficient, organized and object oriented manner without requiring you writing any codes or ashx http handler files.
Web Application Development is significantly simplified by using its enhanced design time User Interface, which lets you do all major tasks in a completely codeless manner. You can simply bind the byte[] BlobData property of this control to your VarBinary or any byte[] datatype of your DataSource and place this control in your DataBound Container Control like GridView or DetailsView. Your DataSource varbinary field Image will be displayed in your browser as you wish.
Are you an eCommerce developer ? Then, you would need this control to create programmable File Download link where the file comes from a secret location. Once you get paid for your your digital content, you would like to give your customer a link to download the file which cannot be shared, right ? Simply use it's Hyperlink part and set byte[] property with your File Content. Thats it.
What is new in 2.1.0.5 software version? - This version fixed some bugs. A new feature added, When the control is in Upload Mode, if no file is set to the BlobData Content, the Clear Button will be Disabled, otherwise it will be enabled.. What is expected in the future? Newly-made ASP.NET BLOB & Thumbnail Controls 2.2 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 2.3 release build. You may download setup.exe directly, estimated download time by ADSL2+ [~24.5 Mbit/s] is 0:00:09. Just write the reviews of the ASP.NET BLOB & Thumbnail Controls. System requirements are .NET Framework 2.0 or later. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and ASP.NET BLOB & Thumbnail Controls found to be clean. The following languages are supported by ASP.NET BLOB & Thumbnail Controls: English.
