PictureServices Sample v1.2 Released (Updated for VS2008 RTM)

The Cybertopian Chronicle - PictureServices updated to VS 2008 RTM

"Today I updated PictureServices to work with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (what a mouthful). My testing rigor for this release was less than perfect. Please let me know if you find any bugs.

For what it's worth, the changes in the API made the simple list extensions implementation simpler. Honestly, I was skeptical at first, but it really is pretty straightforward." [Post leached in full]

NetFX3.com - Picture Services 1.1 - Sample Services

"Pictures Services is a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that returns pictures from the computer in which the service is being hosted.  The Picture Services 1.1 sample demonstrates the following:

• How to build a Syndication Service using WCF and the .NET Framework 3.5
• Expose syndication feeds in both RSS and ATOM format
• Build RESTful services using WCF and UriTemplates
• Expose documentation from a WCF Syndication Service
• Load and process an RSS or ATOM feed from another site using the System.Syndication APIs
• Customize RSS feeds using the Syndication APIs to support IE Simple List Extensions
• Include enclosures within an RSS feed using the System.Syndication APIs
• Use services in a variety of hosts including IIS, Windows Forms, and a console application
• Integrate with Windows Desktop Search
• Retrieve custom metadata from the file system including ratings and tags
• Implement a custom provider model
• Build unit tests for WCF syndication services

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The Picture Services is also available as a starter kit. The starter kit includes the picture services as a project template that you can use to easily include syndication services that provide similar functionality in your solution

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I don't know near enough about WCF (i.e. I know how to spell it and that's about it...).

This project caught my eye because I've recently started moving, sharing, organizing our family digital photo's. It has me thinking "there must be a better way..." (which usually leads to some coding :).

Add FeedSync into the above mix and I think I'd be moving in the right direction. Distributed file sharing/sync'ing (for performance, fault tolerance and network throughput control) with searching, tagging and more. Oh and add some WPF icing on top as a viewer (or maybe a NewsReader like thing? Think very cool photo album thing, that's simple easy for the non-geek's in the family it use... ).

Yeah, sounds about right. Now I just need to build it... LOL