New Update Captcha Image Control

I have updated my captcha image control. I believe it is sleeker and is overall better code wise.

Initiates an asynchronous call, and the returned result, will be a single image of alphanumeric characters. Image’s characters are presented in various font sizes and or (+/-) rotated in some degree.

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Shown below is the Captcha type which generates randomly selected characters and draws an image displaying those specific random characters.

Two files are involved rendering the Captcha image:

• CaptchaControl.cs and CaptchaHandler.ashx
• CaptchaControl.cs is a generic control rendering out an image and an Image Button. The rendered image’s ImageUrl property is dynamically set, and calls CaptchaHandler.ashx with an attached query string. The query string has a particular name/value pair specifying the particular Captcha characters.

CaptchaControl.cs generates and encodes characters appending the generated string to the rendering image’s query string.

CaptchaHandler.ashx returns a HTTPResponse bitmap and is displayed on the client side webpage.

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CaptchaControl Class

Namespace: Captcha.Control
Assembly: CaptchaControl.dll

Syntax
public CaptchaControl : WebControl

Constructors

CaptchaControl(): base(HtmlTextWriterTag.Fieldset)

Initializes a new instance of the CaptchaControl class

Properties

string RefreshButtonPath	Absolute path to the Image Button’s image
string CaptchaHandlerUrl	Absolute path to the Captcha Handler
int Minimum	Minimum number of characters to be selected
int Maximum	Maximum number of characters to be selected
int Overlap	Amount of overlap between character placement.
int ImageWidth	Captcha image’s width
int ImageHeight	Captcha image’s height
string CharacterSet	The character domain to select from. Default character set: ABDEGHMNQRTabdeghmnqr3456789#@&$%

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CaptchaCharacters Class

Namespace: Captcha.Characters
Assembly: CaptchaControl.dll

Syntax
public CaptchaCharacters

Constructors

CaptchaCharacters()

Initializes a new instance of the CaptchaCharacters class

Properties

string characterSet	Get/Set, Sets characters domain, which characters should be included
string characters	From the characterSet property, Gets/Sets randomly selected characters

Methods GenerateCharacters(int, int) Creates a string of randomly selected ASCII characters where string length is specified from the two integer parameters.

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EncodeCaptcha Class

Namespace: Captcha.Characters
Assembly: CaptchaControl.dll

Syntax
public EncodeCaptcha :  CaptchaCharacters

Constructors

EncodeCaptcha()	Initializes a new instance of the EncodeCaptcha class
EncodeCaptcha(string key)	Initializes a new instance of the EncodeCaptcha class with specified encoded key string value.

Properties

encodedKey

Sets the encoded character string.

Methods

SaltKey()

Encodes the randomly selected characters set in the characters property.

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DrawCaptcha Class

Namespace: Captcha.Characters
Assembly: CaptchaControl.dll

Syntax
public DrawCaptcha :  EncodeCaptcha

Constructors

DrawCaptcha(int, int)

Initializes a new instance of the DrawCaptcha class with specified integer width and integer height parameters.

Properties

int[] fontSizes	Gets/Sets an array of integers specifying characters font size.
string[] families	Gets/Sets an array of string specifying characters font family.
string[] colors	Gets/Sets an array of string specifying characters font color.
string backgroundColor	Gets/Sets images global background color
int overlap	Gets/Sets amount of overlap between character placement.
int Width	Get/Sets global Captcha image width
int Height	Get/Sets global Captcha image height

Methods

Bitmap DrawCaptchaString()

Draws randomly selected characters returning one bitmap with characters drawn.