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Last spring I wrote a set of plugins for Graffiti CMS that add a Silverlight 1.0 photo gallery to Graffiti. They used the open source Slide.Show Silverlight photo gallery control written by Vertigo Software to render the actual gallery.

Since then Microsoft has released a new version of Silverlight with big improvements. Vertigo decided to both update the original Slide.Show control and create a new version called Slide.Show2:

• Slide.Show was updated to support Silverlight 2.0 and Firefox 3.0. It also has minor improvements to the Flickr provider. However it still uses the old style way of deploying the Silverlight with JavaScript. Most likely only bug fixes will be added to this version.
• Slide.Show2 is a port of the original Slide.Show to managed code and Silverlight 2.0. It is deployed as a compressed/compiled XAP file, which some older servers might have problems serving. It does not yet support Picasa as a data source. This new version is likely to be updated in the future with new features.

I decided to follow suit and create two different updated versions of the original Graffiti.Slide.Show plugin. Everyone using the release version of the plugin should upgrade to one of these new versions.

• Graffiti.Slide.Show version 1.2 has the latest and greatest bits. It uses Slide.Show2 to render the gallery and requires Graffiti 1.1. This version supports storing photos on the web server or in Flickr. I recommend using v1.2 if possible. You can see it in action on my Photos page.
• For those who can’t run v1.2, I also created Graffiti.Slide.Show version 1.1. This uses the original updated Slide.Show control to render the gallery and requires Graffiti 1.0.1 or above. It supports storing photos on the web server, in Flickr, or in Picasa.

You can download the updated plugin in my downloads section here:
http://kevinharder.com/downloads/graffiti/slide-show-plugin/

Please upgrade your plugin and share any feedback! There are also links on the download page to get the complete source code of the plugins if you are interested in how they work. And a Google Groups mailing list for discussion and updates. If you’d like to contribute to the Graffiti.Slide.Show plugins, check out the Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/graffiti-slideshow/.