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After a few months of hiding from the online communities I have returned with a free program in hand. Almost all this time amongst other things I have used created an “open source” photo gallery for all to use.  Enter Visual Gallery. As the name might obviously state it was created using Visual Basic, which for those that might not know can run in the form of web applications on Windows web servers (IIS).

I started developing the application after running into a situation where I wanted some co-workers to view a few pictures of my kid while not granting them access to my Gallery, which I keep for friends and family. The application gets all of the images in a folder and creates a thumbnail and links all of the  files from the main page. Then Javascript takes over making a nice “stage-like” display of each image which the user merely clicks to return to the list. The application is great for small, personal image galleries since it does not provide a good caching system for thumbnails it generates. They are generated again and again, on the fly.

So though the application is not perferct it is very useful. I am declaring it open source, so make your changes as needed but share them with others. Also tell me how it can be improved, maybe I can later release an updated version?

See it in action here http://damnbugs.com/lab/visual gallery/