rich-media

.NET: Replacing ImageMagick with WPF-objects

We've all seen cool WPF demo-applications with rich media. My question is if WPF-objects can replace some basic functionality in ImageMagick. Basic functions like resizing images, cropping and so on. The results from .NET 2.0's System.Graphics-namespace's resizing is just sad (GDI+). Maybe I'm using it wrong, but out of the box it seem...

Fulltext search with rich media files.

Hi all, What's the best way to perform fulltext searches across rich media files? I'm trying to implement a system where the user could upload random files (.doc, .pdf, .jpg, ...) and down the line, he would be able to search for them based on the file contents or metadata. I would appreciate some ideas on how to build this. PS - I st...