hi, i have just downloaded v1.4 and was curious about how the pictures are stored - i have been following topic
https://www.nopcommerce.com/Boards/Topic.aspx?TopicID=906&p=3
which is about storing pictures outside the database and thumbnail quality. I note that v1.4 has improved picture generation but i was looking at v1.4 picturemanager.cs and (though i'm not a programmer) it looks like the pictures are still saved to the database.
I particularly want the files saved to the file system rather than to the database and was following the advice in the above post for a new (then) version of picturemanager.cs which offered improved thumbnail image generation and stored images in the filesystem. Perfect for me !
However, I see that picturemanager.cs is now stored in a different location
(Nop.BusinessLogic/media/ rather than Nop.Common/media/ )
so I would like to know :
1) does nopcommerce still save images in the database
2) if so then does the new picturemanager.cs create as good as/better quality images (and thumbnails) than picturemanager.cs fix from the above post
3) assuming that images are still saved in the database, is the fix from the above post going to work with v1.4
4) if I compile the project with the picturemanager.cs changes, can i copy just a couple of the files ie
Nop.BusinessLogic.dll
Nop.BusinessLogic.pdb
Nop.BusinessLogic.xml
into the bin folder of existing v1.4 websites rather than recompile each one ?
thanks, hayden