Gallery Server Pro 2.3

Gallery Server Pro 2.3 is an advanced and easy to use tool which is designed to give you a professional way to share and manage photos, video, audio, and other files over the web.

How Gallery Server Pro works:

• Gallery Server Pro is a web application you install on your web server or your web hosting company's server.
• Add your media library by synchronizing your directory containing photos, videos and other media objects with the Gallery Server Pro database. You can also ZIP up all your files and upload them.
• Gallery Server Pro automatically creates a thumbnail image to represent each media object. If you upload a high resolution image, a bandwidth-friendly, compressed version is created. EXIF, IPTC and other types of metadata are extracted and stored in the database.
• Media object files are stored on the hard drive. Metadata about these files, such as width, height, caption, etc. are stored in the database.
• When web users browse your albums and media objects, Gallery Server Pro queries the database for the necessary information, and dynamically renders a custom web page. If watermarking is enabled, the watermark is applied to the image before it is sent.
  

Major features:

1. Free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License
2. Share any file on your web site: photos, video, audio, documents, anything!
3. Automatic thumbnail and compressed image creation when you add your original hi-res photos. No need to reduce or compress your photos first!
4. Support for zero-maintenance community galleries.
5. Full-featured album and media management. Add, edit, delete, copy and move albums. Add captions; move, copy, rearrange, and rotate your photos and other objects.
6. Your choice of database: Zero-configuration, mostly ACID-compliant SQLite database or Microsoft SQL Server for mission critical applications.
7. Use as a stand-alone gallery or easily integrate into your existing web site.
8. Powerful user security with flexible, per-album granularity.
9. Easily add all your photos using one-click synchronize or ZIP file upload functions.
10. Media library can be on the local hard drive or any UNC share, including NAS devices.
11. Scalable to hundreds of thousands of objects. Limited only by hard drive space.
12. Image metadata extraction. Supports these formats: EXIF, XMP, tEXt, IFD,  and IPTC.
13. Search function queries title, caption, filename, and image metadata
14. Image watermarking with your own text and/or image
15. AJAX-enabled for more responsive UI.
16. Web-based installer makes installation a snap!
17. Add links to external media objects, such as YouTube videos!
18. Silverlight video gallery: MS Silverlight used for wmv, wma, mp3, asf, and asx files.
19. 100% managed code. Gallery Server Pro is an ASP.NET media gallery for photos, video, audio, and documents. It is written in C#.

Enhancements:

• Faster. Lighter pages. Better-looking.
• Improved handling of DIVX, PDF, TXT, HTML, RTF, Word docs and more.
• User-owned galleries for community sites.
• Users can register accounts. Fully customizable security.
• Download media files in a ZIP archive.
• Album paging.
• Read-only galleries.
• Error logging.
• Dozens of bug fixes and much more...

Requirements:

• The web application requires:
• • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher.
  • Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (Not needed for .NET 3.5)
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or higher, or a compatible web server, such as UltiDev Cassini Web Server
  • Optional: SQL Server 2000 or higher, including the free Express versions. It does not have to be installed on your server, but it must be available on the network.
  • Optional: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5. If present, Gallery Server Pro extracts additional image metadata not accessible to version 2.0 (primarily titles and keywords).
  • Optional: SMTP server (required if e-mail functionality is enabled).
  • The use of the SQLite database engine requires the web application to run under Full Trust or that System.Data.SQLite.dll be in the server's Global Assembly Cache (GAC). If these are not possible, SQL Server is fully supported in reduced trust environments.
• Users of the web application require:
• Any modern web browser (IE 5+, Netscape 6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari)