With ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight, it seems as this is a pretty cool time to be an ASP.NET Web Developer.
Along those same lines, if you are in the market for a server control that hooks to an image handler to generate images, pull images from a sql server database, and transform images, there is a really cool project on CodePlex that has such an ASP.NET Server Image Control.
Apparently, it is as simple as adding ImageGeneration.dll to your bin directory and inserting the server image control in your web pages. They have three examples that you can download that show you how to:
- Pull Images from a SQL Server Database
- Generate Images on the Fly
- Transform Images
Scott Hunter did something like this awhile ago for ASP.NET Dynamic Data and this might be a spin off of it:
I have talked about similar concepts in the past:
I recommend checking out the ASP.NET Image Server Control on CodePlex here.