Advice on design approach (please!)

[Erik J Sawyer]

I want to build a control/component that will display
graphics within an ASP.Net page. I want the output to be
very cross-browser compatible.

My first thought was to use a custom server-side web
control (possibly inherited from the Image control), but
it appears that the rendering of ASP.Net server controls
is limited to inserting text into the HTML stream. I
assume that inserting a graphical MIME stream into this
wouldn't produce the desired result.

I have found a (very) few samples on the web that
generate graphics, but most of them sit behind an <img>
link, essentially using ASP.Net as if it was CGI. Is
this the best approach?

Help!
Erik J Sawyer, Webmaster
Kingsport City Schools
[url]www.k12k.com[/url]

[Lucas Tam]

"Erik J Sawyer" <ESawyer@N-o-S-p-a-m.K12K.com> wrote in news:395d01c374b7
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> I have found a (very) few samples on the web that
> generate graphics, but most of them sit behind an <img>
> link, essentially using ASP.Net as if it was CGI. Is
> this the best approach?

If you want to output the dynamically generated image directly without
storing to disk, then yes - you'll need to call a secondary ASP page which
outputs the image via a response stream.


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[Shawn B.]

There's an example of a webcontrol generating an image...

[url]http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/antiauto.asp[/url]


Thanks,
Shawn



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> "Erik J Sawyer" <ESawyer@N-o-S-p-a-m.K12K.com> wrote in news:395d01c374b7
> $d0662c60$a601280a@phx.gbl:
>

> > I have found a (very) few samples on the web that
> > generate graphics, but most of them sit behind an <img>
> > link, essentially using ASP.Net as if it was CGI. Is
> > this the best approach?

>
> If you want to output the dynamically generated image directly without
> storing to disk, then yes - you'll need to call a secondary ASP page which
> outputs the image via a response stream.
>
>
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> Lucas Tam (REMOVEnntp@rogers.com)
> Please delete "REMOVE" from the e-mail address when replying.
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