I'm an old-school ASP developer trying to wrap my head around .Net development. I can probably figure out a way to do the following, but I'm wondering about the BEST way to do it. Here's the issue;
I have a site where users can upload images in various areas, and to keep things clean I am saving the images in image columns in a SQL Server 2005 db. I am using the Telerik tools, including the RadBinaryImage, and that part is working properly. When the image is uploaded, I'd like to; - create an appropriate-sized thumbnail and save that in a thumbnail image field - with the full-size image again, resize the image within specified bounds, add a transparent image as a watermark, and save that image back to the db I have access to Persits ASPJpeg, but from my reading I also believe that the .net imaging library can do the resizing and combining for me. My questions are; - where is the best place to do this? - can I do it with a general class function that could be called for different tables? (there are several tables where images may be saved, but the image column names are the same in each) - would it be better to do it with the .net image library, or would you recommend using a third-party object library like ASPJpeg? - any code examples that would explain the process for any/all these steps? Thanks in advance, and any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.
