As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I have a few side projects I am working on...this morning I finished up version 1 of DownStream.

I am hopefully going to finish the write up on it later on today or tomorrow and post the code. I am really impressed with how easy it actually was to write in C#. I pieced something like this together in VB 6 and it was a real pain in the ass. Anyways, here is a little overview of what it is...

DownStream is designed to be a utility that will open a file in a web application or stream one out of a database, using the same way to access both -> a URL! For example if I had a jpg stored in the database called sue.jpg, instead of writing the logic to extract it on the page I can actually set a serverside image control to use a url like: http://localhost/downstream/sue.jpg. Downstream is currently implemented as an HttpModule that detects that sue.jpg doesn't exist as a file - so get it from the database (other wise it would return the file from the file system).

Stay tuned for more detail, the source code and tester solution...