Picture Services 1.1 - Sample Services

Pictures Services is a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that returns pictures from the computer in which the service is being hosted. The Picture Services 1.1 sample demonstrates the following:

How to build a Syndication Service using WCF and the .NET Framework 3.5
Expose syndication feeds in both RSS and ATOM format
Build RESTful services using WCF and UriTemplates
Expose documentation from a WCF Syndication Service
Load and process an RSS or ATOM feed from another site using the System.Syndication APIs
Customize RSS feeds using the Syndication APIs to support IE Simple List Extensions
Include enclosures within an RSS feed using the System.Syndication APIs
Use services in a variety of hosts including IIS, Windows Forms, and a console application
Integrate with Windows Desktop Search
Retrieve custom metadata from the file system including ratings and tags
Implement a custom provider model
Build unit tests for WCF syndication services

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Sample Features

The following screenshots illustrate some of the features of the Picture Services sample:

Simple list extensions are used to provide sorting and filtering in Internet Explorer 7.0

Tags are mapped to categories in the syndication feed

After subscribing to the feed, the pictures Feed can be displayed in a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget

Starter Kit

The Picture Services is also available as a starter kit. The starter kit includes the picture services as a project template that you can use to easily include syndication services that provide similar functionality in your solution: