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Image Gallery Directory Listing Module for IIS7 by bills

Ratings 3 out of 5 star average user rating   1  Reviews
Category AdministrationAdministration   DevelopmentDevelopment  
License Free
Downloads 7,675
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Works with IIS 7
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Updated on 2/11/2009 12:01:58 PM

Overview

This is my famous DirListModule, used in hundreds of demos where I show off the new, .NET extensibility of IIS7.  It creates an automatic photo gallery complete with thumbnails for any directory on your site.  It is simple to deploy and customize. 

Features

+ Turns any directory on your site into a photo gallery. 

+ Easy to customize the look and feel - just tweak the HTML and CSS

Benefits

Instant Photo Gallery - Just upload images of any size to an empty directory on your site.

Requirements

IIS7, integrated pipeline. 

User Reviews

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"simple, effective" reviewed by ctny ( Intermediate technical level )

Rating 4 out of 5 star rating
Reviewed on Sunday, November 30, 2008
Pros Very easy to install and works well. The install was simple, but took a few minutes to work out since I was not familiar with IIS. Here are the steps for others to use: 1. install into the web root, so bin, themes and web.config are in the "/" directory referenced by the url 2. edit web.config to customize thumbnail size, etc 3. add your photos directory as a virtual or phyical dir 4. browse to the url, and see photos
Cons 1. does NOT use exif info to rotate photos. 2. clicking the thumbnail shows a small version of the photo. the compression is high, so the quality is less than I like, and there is no way to define the quality in the config. 3. thumbnails are generated on the fly and not cached on disk, so restarting IIS will cause the system to start over again.
Conclusion quite a good add-on and easy to use, plus free! If the author has sometime, fixing the rotate by EXIF would be really cool.

"follow up to 1st review" reviewed by ctny ( Intermediate technical level )

Rating 4 out of 5 star rating
Reviewed on Sunday, November 30, 2008
Pros Just to correct my last review, this module actually uses EXIF to rotate.
Cons 1. the style.css defined h3 tag twice, and the 2nd one is actually used obviously. however, the width parameter is 101% which cause the horizontal scroll bar to appear for no reason. changed it to 100% and fixed the problem. 2. not sure if files are sorted by name. I have hundreds of directories, and I remember a few directories were not sorted correctly, but can track back to which dirs again...
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"Doesn't work in Chrome" reviewed by kcornwell ( Expert technical level )

Rating 3 out of 5 star rating
Reviewed on Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Pros
Cons There is no opening <HEAD> tag causing it to crash in Google Chrome.
Conclusion Need to add <head> tag to the module.
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