Hi,

I'm trying to develop an application for browsing Picasa albums using c# in windows compact framework, I've been working from the PhotoBrowser example code, but have hit a problem.

The code retrieves 10 photos from the user and I'm saving them in an ImageList to display in a listview object, as below. It works fine for anything up to NumberToRetrieve is 2, but after that the query to stream the image from the thumbnail URL generates an exception error code 10054:

"An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"

I have the same problem when I run the PhotoBrowser application, the first thumbnail or two are downloaded fine, but then an exception is received until you send a PhotoQuery to a new album.

I can solve the problem by adding a new PhotoQuery

PicasaFeed feed = myService.Query(p_query);

in the for loop, so a new query is generated every iteration of the loop before streaming a thumbnail, but this seems a bit inefficient given I already have the URLs in the feed before streaming the thumbnails.

Can anyone tell me why my connection is being closed? And is this the only way to solve the problem?

Thanks in advance, Steve

PhotoQuery p_query = new PhotoQuery(PicasaQuery.CreatePicasaUri(user)); p_query.Thumbsize = ("32c"); // set thumbnail size p_query.NumberToRetrieve = 10; // retrieve 10 images

PicasaFeed feed = myService.Query(p_query);

if (feed2 != null && feed2.Entries.Count > 0) { int imageCount = feed2.Entries.Count;

for (int i = 0; i < imageCount; i++) { PicasaEntry entry = feed2.Entries[i] as PicasaEntry;

// find smallest thumbnail for image

MediaThumbnail smallest = GetSmallestThumbnail(entry.Media.Thumbnails);

Stream stream = myService.Query(new Uri(smallest.Attributes["url"] as string));

myImageList.Add( new Bitmap(stream) );

}

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