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Slide.Show Photo Gallery Plugin

A set of Graffiti plugins that render a Silverlight photo gallery on a post page. One looks for photos saved in folders on the web site, another uses Flickr, and a third uses Picasa Web Albums (version 1.1 only). They use the the open source Slide.Show and Slide.Show2 Silverlight photo gallery controls. This plugin is also running on this site.

The Graffiti Slide.Show Photo Gallery plugin set is an open source project on Google Code!
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Version 1.2

This is the most current version. Uses the improved Slide.Show2 control. Slide.Show2 is written in 100% managed code using Silverlight 2.0 and deployed as a XAP file. It requires Graffiti CMS 1.1 or above.

This version currently contains two 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 account on Flickr. Flickr sets are displayed as albums in the gallery.

NOTE:  If you are using Version 1.2 and see an empty Silverlight box instead of the actual gallery, make sure your web server is configured for .XAP files. It should work out of the box on Windows Server 2008, but older servers may need to have the Silverlight 2.0 XAP mime type added to IIS configuration. Click here for instructions.

Version 1.1

This is a minor update of the original Graffiti.Slide.Show release for those who do not want or can't move to 1.2. It updates Slide.Show control with several fixes including support for Silverlight 2.0, FireFox 3.0, and the Flickr provider. In this version, the Silverlight code is deployed as JavaScript which will work on every web server (not all servers are configured correctly for the newer XAP files).

Version 1.1 also includes an additional (third) plugin: the Picasa Slide.Show Photo Gallery Plugin. The Picasa plugin uses the Picasa API to retrieve photos from a user account on Google Picasa Web Albums. Picasa support has not yet been added to the newer 1.2 version, so anyone using Picasa should update to v1.1.