Silverlight Photo Gallery 5.3
1.  Introduction
     This is a Ready-to-Use-and-Deploy Silverlight Gallery application which mainly based from the famous open source project - Slide.Show.  It utilizes the slide.show control advantages to let you publishing highly-customizable photo galleries.
    
     Package contains two sub modules: Photo Gallery and Gallery Category.  Photo Gallery is used to display photo slideshows and Gallery Category is used to provide gallery list navigation for photo gallery module instance.

      Visit http://www.dnnmodules.cn/tabid/69/Default.aspx  to see live demo,please be patience for the network connection.
 
2. Release notes
       v5.3
    : File sort option added whild dynamic generate iamge slides.You can sort by file name/modify date/file size in v5.3


      v5.2
    : Add secondary domain name support, now it works with secondary domain name like http://www.dnnmodules.cn/default.aspx?alias=www.dnnmodules.cn/skins.
    :Improve gallery load performance.

    v5.1
    :Automatic generate thumbnail images,this feature will improve gallery performance observably.
      If “Generate thumbnail “ option is checked, module will automatic generate related thumbnail for gallery images. Thumbnail image will named as  “thumb_” + original image name. For example, if original image is Test.jpg, then module will generate a thumbnail named as thumb_Test.jpg.  This will improve gallery performance observably, especially when gallery has  a lot of images.

    V5.0
    :New “Gallery layout“ wizard steps which introduce more than 80 control options

3. Upgrade discount
      All modules from DnnModules.cn are customer-driven, v5.3 is the 11th generation of this product(v3.0/v4.0/v4.3/v4.5/v4.6/v4.7/v4.8/v5.0/v5.1/v5.2/v5.3). We have received many suggestions from our customers since the first release, this module can't be making out without customers help . As a return to their favor, we carry a long term policy as to offer 100%(sometimes 99%) upgrade discount to customers who bought the previous version.

     We strongly recommend costomers upgrade to this version.

4.  Photo gallery module featue
      Photo Gallery is used to display photo slideshows. It supports galleries like:
      1: Dynamic Gallery
      2: Customize Gallery         
      3: Simple Slideshow
      4: Flickr Gallery
      5: Picasa Gallery 
      6: SmugMug Gallery


     
      4.1. Dynamic Gallery view demo
      Dymaic Gallery is a amazing feature , it enables  you create gallery in just one minute. Simply specify a folder, It will  automatically scan it and its sub directories, picking up all the images files and build the album for you. Whenever your image file(or directory) is changed,it will automatic refresh. It makes things more easy because all you need to do is select a specific gallery folder , and then maintain its folder structure and files through other tools(like ftp software), gallery will automatic changed.

                                  Dynamic gallery with album paging

    Besides that , module also let you organize albums(or images) by add prefix. For example ,if you have two albums, BAlbum, CAlbum, you can change their order by change their name as 01CAlbum,02BAlbum, and set "Omit Folder Char" to 2, then their order will be 01CAlbum,02BAlbum but their name will be CAlbum,BAlbum, the first two letter is removed. You can also exclude some directories ,prevent them to display.


      4.2. Customize Gallery  view demo
      Customize gallery allows you define a list of albums, and add image slide to each album.Each album can have its own transition style(fade transition/shape transition/slide transition/wipe transition).  It is the typical usage.

                       Customize gallery - album viewer

 Customize gallery - Slide viewer. Click the right bottom button will let you view in full screen

     4.3 Simple Slideshow  view demo
     Simple Slideshow acts like a normal image rotator. It allows you add a list of iamges and then rotator them. The rotator transition can be selected from fade transition/shape transition/slide transition and wipe transition.

      4.4 Flickr Gallery  view demo
      Flickr Gallery enables you integrate your gallery in Flickr. To retrieve image you need provide a valid flickr user name.

     Click here to view live demo, please note sometimes it will display a image error message due to the connection to Flickr in demo page.

                                    Flickr Gallery

      4.5 Picasa Gallery
       Picasa Gallery enables you integrate your gallery in Picasa. Unlike Fickr, it only need  a valid Picasa user name to retireve images.

                                   Picasa gallery settings

       4.6 SmugMug Gallery    view demo
       SmugMug(http://www.SmugMug.com) is a family business dedicated site which offers easy, beautiful, ad-free photo-sharing.  
      You can retrieve images  to show a single album from any smugmug account (provided those albumss are public) by simply providing the albumId and albumKey. You can get the id and key for any album by selecting that album on the smugmug site and looking at the end of the url, it is in the format of http://user.smugmug.com/gallery/albumId_albumKey#ImageId.  

      You can also provide a  nickname of SmugMug account to retrieve all public albums of that account.

                                                      SmugMug gallery settings
                                                SmugMug gallery demo

5.  Gallery layout settings(new in v5.0)
     V5.0 add a new “gallery layout“ settings wizard step. It introduce more than 80 options to let your control every component layout in gallery. Like Navigation Tray/Album Viewer/Album Button/Album Nagivation/Slide Description... etc.

      5.1 Gallery layout component part 1 
         
      1. Album viewer  2. Album navigation 3  Album button)

      5.2 Gallery layout component part 2

             1. Slide description          2. Navigation tray      3  Slide navigation
             6 Toggle album viewer      7 Toggle full screen   8 Thumbnail viewer

           5.3 Gallery layout settings screenshot

                        Gallery layout settings 1

                  Gallery layout settings 2

6.  Gallery category module featue
      
      6.1 Introduction
      Gallery Category is an independent module which provides category list navigation for photo gallery module instance.   Each category corresponds a folder under portal site. It has properties like title, image, and description. Click category item will display images under this folder ( including its sub directories ) on silverlight photo gallery module instance. This module can be put on the same page with silverlight photo gallery module instance, or put on different page ( In this case you need specify which page the photo gallery module instance exists ).

     This sub module is very useful when you have multiple galleries. In previous edition you need add different photo gallery instance for each gallery. Now you only need one instance by using “Gallery Category” sub module.  Click here to view demo.

 
     6.2 Customize url parameter
     Besides using “Gallery Category” module, you can also customize your own url parameters by provider  “FolderId” and “GalleryTitle” parameters.  For example, if silverlight photo gallery module instance  is http://www.DnnModules.cn/tabid/300/default.aspx, and you have a folder which id is 700, then input http://www.DnnModules.cn/tabid/300/FolderId/700/default.aspx   will display images under this folder,  and http://www.DnnModules.cn/tabid/300/FolderId/700/GalleryTitle/Ok/default.aspx, will display images and change module title as “OK”.

     6.3 Control options
     Each category corresponds a folder on your site.It has properties like title,image,description. You can control whether to show them in list, you can also control how many categories display in one row.
     
     6.4 Template based
     Category list supports templates ,you can customize your own style and display it.
   
7.  Other highlight features
      Powerful yet easy to use 
      Uses the asp.net 2.0 wizard control to easily guide you step by step. All you need to do is follow the wizard, click “previous” or “next”. It’s as easy as ABC.
    
     Fully customize supported
     V5.0 add a new “gallery layout“ settings wizard step. It introduce more than 80 options to let your control every component layout in gallery. Like Navigation Tray/Album Viewer/Album Button/Album Nagivation/Slide Description... etc.

    Template based 
    Both Photo Gallery and Gallery Category view interface are template based. You can customize your  own display template, change item  layout or add additional information as your wish.
     
     Localization support and online help support
     All settings are self-explanatory utilizing the standard DNN help menu system.

8. Some Module Admin Screens
    1.General Settings
    2.Slideshow settings
        2.1 Customize gallery slideshow settings
        2.2 Simple slideshow settings
        2.3 Flickr gallery slideshow settings
    3.Slidelist
       3.1 Customize slide list
       3.2 Add slide from portal folder
       3.3 Using existing xml file
   
         

9  Help and support
      Package contains a user guide.doc for details on how to use this module.

      Online help available through the standard DNN help. 

      Visit our support forum  for any questions regarding issues with this module.
    
      Using Snowcovered help ticket syetem to submit your question.
     
     Mail us at xiaoqi98@msn.com if you need more directly assistance(or if you have any improvement suggestion)

     Note, currently microsoft silverlight can only display English well, so, you should not use this module to display non- English album name or image file(like Chinese,Korean , etc).

10 Version Difference

	Silverlight Photo Gallery 5.3	Enterprise Edition	Enterprise Edition W/src
Private Assembly	Yes	Yes	Yes
Module Source(C#)	No	No	Yes
Production Installation License(PIL)	1 PIL with unlimited sub portals	Unlimited PIL	Unlimited PIL

11 DNN Version Compatibility
    Dnn 4.x/5.x and above.

12 Silverlight Compatibility
     Silverlight 2.0 and above.