I needed a slick way for my customers to upload, crop and resize photos within
my Church Management Software. After doing some research it seems that a bunch
of existing libraries and utilities need to be combined to create a functional
and slick user experience for this seemingly mundane task. Specifically the
platform I want to use is ASP.NET MVC (although this code will work equally well
in Java with a few changes) and the best tools for uploading and cropping images
seem to be Uploadify and jCrop powered by jQuery (of course.)
I found a lot of examples of each different library used in ASP.NET (and a
few in MVC) but the examples where rather simplistic and didn’t really provide
an elegant end to end solution tying together these great libraries. So I went
ahead and created a nice ASP.NET MVC based sample application that accomplishes
the following…
- Uploads images with Uploadify
- Stores uploaded images in Cache
- Crops images using jCrop
- Resizing images
- All interactions handled by jQuery AJAX for a smooth UX
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Aaron Schnieder
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