Jus a quick code snippet for display a user’s Gravatar in MVC;
public static MvcHtmlString DisplayGravatar(this HtmlHelper helper, string emailAddress, int size=80) { return new MvcHtmlString("<img src=" + GravatarUrl(helper, emailAddress, size) + " />"); } public static string GravatarUrl(this HtmlHelper helper, string emailAddress, int size=80) { if (size < 1 || size > 512) { size = 80; } //1.Trim leading and trailing whitespace from an email address //2.Force all characters to lower-case emailAddress = emailAddress.Trim().ToLower(); //3.md5 hash the final string string md5Hash = GetMD5Hash(emailAddress); return string.Format("http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{0}?s={1}", md5Hash, size); } private static string GetMD5Hash(string input) { System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider x = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); byte[] bs = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input); bs = x.ComputeHash(bs); System.Text.StringBuilder s = new System.Text.StringBuilder(); foreach (byte b in bs) { s.Append(b.ToString("x2").ToLower()); } string password = s.ToString(); return password; }