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GIF Proxy – Convert GIF to JPG (for Silverlight)
One of the most irritating features of Silverlight, is that it can’t handle GIF images. There is the Imagetools library from CodePlex, but it’s complex to implement.
Here’s a simple way of doing it, via a GIF proxy. This is a simple web page that takes a url of a GIF image in the querystring and outputs a JPEG:
Example: Here’s a GIF: http://www-wales.ch.cam.ac.uk/~wales/CCD/Thomson2/gif/560.gif
And Here’s it as a Jpeg: http://{removed}/GifProxy.aspx?url=http://www-wales.ch.cam.ac.uk/~wales/CCD/Thomson2/gif/560.gif
Great for Silverlight, WP7 (Windows Phone 7) etc.
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Network Programming in .NET 
Hello,
I’m a wp7 dev, and your solution meet my needs. Your proxy is up and running, for 2 years, but is it possible to have the aspx page to set it on my own server?
Have a nice day
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Here’s a PHP version:
isset($_GET[‘url’]) ? $url = trim($_GET[‘url’]) : $url = ”;
if ($url != ”){
$image = imagecreatefromgif($url);
imagejpeg($image);
imagedestroy($image);
}
Thanks Fabrice!
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