ASPJPEG

[w1z4rd]

What a rip off! $200 FFS.

Do developers seriously have to code for such epic proprietary bs?

Its a stupid dll simply to resize images into thumbnails.... and you have to pay for it. Coming from a FOSS background I cant believe how unbelievably stupid microsoft windows hosting is.

Are there any work arounds for this?

 

[dequadin]

It's really easy to write your own.

There was a thread about it recently.

 

[Nod]

If you can install ImageMagick on the webserver, you should be all set.
Programming interfaces here.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Wow, I can't believe anyone would actually want to buy something like it. You can quite easily build your own image manipulation assemblies with resize / crop methods within minutes, literally. The .NET imaging libraries are really robust, so achieving something like thumbnail generation is quite easy.

Come to think of it, you can just use the Image(or was that Bitmap?).ToThumbnail method to generate a thumbnail from pretty much any image...

 

[DarkStreet]

We purchased and installed all the Persits components a few years ago (PDF, Email, Upload, JPG, Encrypt) and have never had any issues. For smaller sites it might be costly but we paid for it from the payment from our first Windows website.

Needless to say, Windows hosting is really becoming expensive (licensing for components, MS SQL, etc.) so we've been moving all our development to PHP using Linux, much cheaper and more reliable/stable.

 

[w1z4rd]

We purchased and installed all the Persits components a few years ago (PDF, Email, Upload, JPG, Encrypt) and have never had any issues. For smaller sites it might be costly but we paid for it from the payment from our first Windows website.

Needless to say, Windows hosting is really becoming expensive (licensing for components, MS SQL, etc.) so we've been moving all our development to PHP using Linux, much cheaper and more reliable/stable.

Yeah, tell me about it. Im now charging a hang of a lot more for Windows sites than I do Linux sites... and the Linux hosted sites all out perform Windows hosting something silly.

 

[guest2013-1]

Um, I bought a WYSIWYG addon for like $50 that does this with no requirement on the server except .NET 2 (or PHP). No funny dll's, no real server platform requirements, ****all.

And thats just because I was lazy...