Hello @ all,
I just noticed, that images now are stored in the DB and cached onto disk on first use, which I think is a pretty good feature. But I also noticed, that the images are created the moment the page is accessed and not when the image is actually requested.
In my humble opinion it is a more sophisticated approach to create an image handler on let's say .jpg or .jpeg extensions, which decides to do with the request. You could - for example - resize or rotate images on the fly or stamp some "best-buy" image on the original pic, just by defining some image naming format.
You find a nice example for image handling at CodeProject.com, just follow this link: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ImageHandler.aspx
Cheers,
Steffen