BestCloudHostingASP.NET | Best and affordable Gallery Server 4.2.0 hosting. Gallery Server is a media gallery for sharing and managing photos, videos, audio, and other files over the web. Easily add thousands of files using one-click synchronization feature. Includes built in support for metadata extraction, watermarking, video and audio transcoding, security management, and more. 100% managed code written in C# and ASP.NET 4.5. NEW IN 4.0: New ribbon toolbar, performance increases and more.

What is Gallery Server?

It’s a self-hosted, browser-based gallery for your media files. Gallery Server 4.2.0 makes your photos, videos, audio files and documents accessible from any browser on any device. Install it on your web server or with your web hosting company. You’re in complete control. There are no monthly fees. A perpetual license is included with your purchase. Discounted annual subscription renewals give you continued access to updates and support.

What’s New in Gallery Server Pro 4.2.0?

Here’s the high-level overview of what’s new:

Ribbon toolbar – Manage your gallery faster and with less clicks using the new, ajax-enabled ribbon interface. Most tasks, such as editing properties, creating albums, moving/copying items and more can be done without leaving the current page.

Image and HTML editors – Crop, resize and more with the new image editor. Add rich text and formatting with the tinyMCE-based HTML editor.

Metadata writing – Common properties such as titles, captions, tags and more can now be written back to the original media file, preserving your hard work long after you’ve moved on from Gallery Server.

High resolution viewer – View the original, high resolution images and videos in the browser.

Performance improvements – They improved performance in several key areas. There’s a new smart cache algorithm that only purges changed items, the synchronization engine is up to 50% faster, ZIP file downloads are 80% faster, and a new delayed image downloading algorithm improves performance when viewing albums with hundreds or thousands of assets.

There is also new RAW file support, improved touchscreen support, auto-logon capability, a new loop slideshow option, an ‘Authenticated Users’ role, improved ImageMagick support, and support for extracting people tags from Windows Photo Gallery.

Enhancements

• Allow Gallery Server admin to upload watermark image
• Update several third party libraries (jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Migrate, jsRender/jsViews, SignalR, SlickGrid, MSBuildTasks, TypeScript, jsTree, tinyMCE, plUpload)

Bug fixes

• Deleted 3.2.1 UI templates may reappear
• A media asset with null metadata may not be able to be added or synchronized
• Embed HTML in light skin has poor contrast
• Error when editing title, caption, or other property of root album
• Sort preference not saved for anonymous users
• The order of media assets in the individual view may not match the order in the thumbnail view
• Backup files are not compressed
• Error “Value cannot be null”
• Error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

Gallery Server 4.2.0 Features

Gallery Server supports the following features:

• New ribbon UI
• New, more efficient workflow for creating albums, moving/copying, assigning thumbnails, rotation and more
• New image editor allows cropping, resizing, color adjustments and more
• New HTML editor
• New Media Queue page
• Allow viewing high resolution original files in web browser
• Image property edits can be embedded in the original file
• Support batch metadata writing to original files
• New caching algorithm improves performance – only changed items are purged
• Improved support for high DPI devices
• Improved touchscreen support
• Improve usability of admin pages on small devices
• Support for Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Adobe Illustrator AI and PostScript PS files
• Free version now gets the same UI templates as high-end editions (tag clouds/tag trees, PayPal & Facebook templates)
• Support for auto-logon using Windows credentials (aka Windows Authentication – great in AD environments!)
• AD group role provider – use existing AD groups instead of creating new roles
• Up to 50% faster synchronization times
• 80% faster ZIP download performance
• Album structure preserved in ZIP downloads
• Better performance on constrained memory servers
• CSS changes are preserved during upgrades
• Allow manual sorting as default sort option
• New ‘loop’ slideshow option
• Support specifying a role that users are always a member of
• Takes advantage of full ImageMagick installation, resulting in improved image support
• Allow any media asset to serve as the thumbnail for an album
• Album breadcrumb menu and login/search dialogs now in UI template
• Easier adding, editing, and deleting file types
• Extracts people tags written by Windows Photo Gallery
• Improved iframe support
• Improved HTML rendering performance for large albums
• Faster date/time sorting algorithm
• Dozens of bug fixes, performance tweaks, and stability improvements
• New low cost version called Gallery Server Home and Nonprofit that has support for SQL Server and several features you won’t find in the free version.