Danny Douglass created an excellent flickr photo gallery for Blogengine.NET. It's located here. Since GoDaddy is my host, I have to deal with medium trust issues, so Danny's gallery wouldnt work for me. Fortunately, Danny released the source for this module, so I modified it for my purposes.
After debugging a bit, I found that the security on my IIS 7 hosted site wouldn't allow me to cache downloaded flickr photos. You would think that I could just point the cache folder to one on my site with write permissions. Unfortunately, the FlickrNET provider that the gallery was built with asks for a location in the <drive>:\<folder> format (for example: c:\Inetpub\temp). I noticed that it would be possible to find out the drive/folder location of my site on my webhost, but its likely my website wouldn't be able to access the local file system, so I didn't go wandering down that road. Besides, who knows when they might change it.
To get things going, I simply disabled the the flickr caching. The first function that is called when the gallery is accessed is called GetPhotoSets(). I added Flickr.CacheDisabled = true; as the first line of module to make this happen. I rearranged some other code as well, but this was the main thing.
To use my modified version:
BlogEngineFlickrPhotos.zip (115.79 kb)
Web.Config (14.29 kb)
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8/24/2008 5:59:14 AM
I'm also use godaddy to host my page and getting the error below while using your code. any ideas how to fix this? I'm not a dotnet developer though :-( Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Linq' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Line 3: using System.Collections.Generic; Line 4: using System.Configuration; Line 5: using System.Linq; Line 6: using System.Text; Line 7: using FlickrNet; Source File: d:\hosting\vp\App_Code\FlickrConnector\Gallery.cs Line: 5
vp
8/24/2008 1:25:02 PM
I tried the tweak you suggested and getting the error below. any idea how I can fix this? The type or namespace name 'Linq' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
8/25/2008 7:36:21 AM
I have my website running on IIS 7 in integrated mode using .NET 3.5. Basically, your error is a result of not referencing .NET 3.5 libraries, linq to be specific. I have attached my web.config; you could use it as a template to modify your web.config. By doing this, your site would reference .NET 3.5 assemblies as opposed to only .NET 2.0. In the meantime, I will recompile an assembly for use in a .NET 2.0 environment. My apologies...I should have mentioned that I converted my site to .NET 3.5. Let me know if this helps!
Alex Tafoya
8/25/2008 7:39:27 AM
I should mention that you would need to be using IIS7 in integrated mode for my web.config to be of any use. Cheers!
8/25/2008 3:45:24 PM
Could you please send me the libraries for .NET 2.0 alteast. Thanks!
8/25/2008 4:33:08 PM
I can't download your web.config file either...
8/29/2008 10:46:31 AM
You should be able to download the files now. I upgraded to a new build and somehow broke the original links.
Alex
11/28/2008 11:57:55 PM
I figured out how to get this working with GoDaddy running under IIS, with .NET 2.0. If anyone needs the files, please let me know.
Phil
4/14/2009 9:31:55 AM
Could you just send me the libraries for .NET 2.0 alteast please. Many thanks
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4/15/2009 10:09:19 AM
Several people have shown interest in this. I am going to revive it. Would .NET 3.5 be okay?
6/12/2009 12:07:59 AM
I've only just jumped onto godaddys windows hosting a week ago, so I'm sure this will come in handy once I've sorted the basics out!
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7/22/2009 8:50:23 AM
"Seo test" does look like a spamming bot. I definitely need to implement some anti-spam features. This site runs on the blogengine.net blog engine, along with some additions I've made. The theme is an original I created. Did you create biodentalbudapest.co.uk?
7/24/2009 10:08:17 AM
I see u are using BLogEngine from microsoft on this website - Looks absolutely excellent. I conclude it will be a approved alternative to wordpress. Thanks for letting me comment on your attractive blog by the way. Regards, Martin.
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