SlideShowExtender doesn't work when I'm using Routes and a Handler

Hi there. I have a problem with the SlideShowExtender.
I wanted to load images from a database, using a handler. It works fine when I open the original page, without a Route. The Route also works for all page contents, but not the Slide Show Extender. I tried it, when the handler and the aspx-file were inside the root and when they were both inside the same subfolder. I tried it using hard coded and soft coded picture URLs and also the '../subfolder/myhandler.ashx'.
Could you please have a look at the code and hopefully have a nice idea?

Route:

routes.MapPageRoute("myPictureshow", "myPictureshow-{uniformsqlid}", "~/myfolder/myPictureshow.aspx");

script:
[System.Web.Services.WebMethod]
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptMethod]
public static AjaxControlToolkit.Slide[] GetSlides()
{
List<AjaxControlToolkit.Slide> NewSlide = new List<Slide>();
if (PictureContent != null)
for (int PictureNumber = 0; PictureNumber < 8; PictureNumber++)
if (PictureContent[PictureNumber]!=null)
if (PictureContent[PictureNumber].Length > 0)
{
string PictureUrl = "myHandler.ashx?imgid=" + PictureNumber;
// alternative: "../myfolder/myHandler.ashx?imgid=" + PictureNumber;
//or: "localhost:12345/myfolder/myHandler.ashx?imgid=" + PictureNumber;
NewSlide.Add(new AjaxControlToolkit.Slide(PictureUrl, "Bild 1", ""));
};
AjaxControlToolkit.Slide[] returnSlide = new Slide[NewSlide.Count];
for (int PictureNumber = 0; PictureNumber < NewSlide.Count; PictureNumber++)
returnSlide[PictureNumber] = NewSlide[PictureNumber];
return returnSlide;
}

Handler:

public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
EinstellKlasse NeueKlasseEinstellen = new EinstellKlasse();
if (context.Request.QueryString["imgid"] != null)
{
string id = context.Request.QueryString["imgid"].ToString();
context.Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
int PictureNumber = Convert.ToInt16(id);

Stream stream = new MemoryStream((byte[])myPictureshow.PictureContent[PictureNumber]);

byte[] buffer = new byte[2024];
int byteSeq = stream.Read(buffer, 0, 2024);

while (byteSeq > 0)
{
context.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, byteSeq);
byteSeq = stream.Read(buffer, 0, 2024);
}

}

}

Thx robinscorner

If you need to pass a variable to the current page containing the slide show, which does not accept Routes, you could do the following:You do not use a Route, but call the page like this:

"~/MyFolder/examplepage.aspx/whateveryouwanttopass"

Now in the codebehind file, you will find the variables (whateveryouwanttopass) when you enter

this.Page.Request.PathInfo

Hope it helps you too! robinscorner

Thanks for posting your solution.

Robin, could you please send me a zip file with the files that you use in this example? Or where can I download?

Because, I have an example of code but it does not work. I can not make it work. Thanks!

Sorry, but I had some more probs like I couln't view several galleries on one page, so I changed everything. I'm using
simplegallery now (Simple Controls Gallery v1.4, I am not allowed to send the link).

Please, if you want to reconstruct my former method, search for generic handlers and images on google, do what ajax toolkit provides in the sample pages and put it together with the stuff I wrote above.

Thanks! I visited the website of the control, so I think, that you wrote code for the image array to use a SQL DB with java, my problem is the same... I do not do familiar with java.

However, glad to know how to do an array with java and make it work.

If you have your difficulties, please take a look at this helpful instruction of how to use it with a XML file:

-link is not allowed, but seach for

JQuery Image Gallery with XML

Ok, this documentation is very useful.
Hope all these hints help me to make that image slider works from a SQL db.

Thanks again!

nice sharing thanks