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C# Image to Byte Array and Byte Array to Image Converter Class

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C# Helper class to convert image to byte array and byte array to image
/*
 * Created by Rajan Tawate.
 * User: Owner
 * Date: 9/3/2006
 * Time: 8:00 PM
 * 

 */

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;

	/// <summary>
	/// Description of ImageConverter.
	/// </summary>
	public class ImageConverter
	{
		public ImageConverter()
		{
		}
		
		public byte[] imageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image imageIn)
		{
			MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
			imageIn.Save(ms,System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);
			return  ms.ToArray();
		}
		
		public Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArrayIn)
		{
			MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(byteArrayIn);
			Image returnImage = Image.FromStream(ms);
			return returnImage;
	
		}

	public static void Main()
		{

		}
		
	}

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