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<font color="#000000"><br><b>Introduction<br></b>Image to byte array class:<br><br>Recently I was looking for a class which could convert an System.Drawing.Image to byte[] array and vice versa. After<br>a lot of search on google I realised that it would be faster for me to write this class and also share<br>it with the community.<br><br><br>The class which I wrote is called ImageConverter.cs<br><br>The class has two methods<br><br>First Method : Convert Image to byte[] array<br><br>public byte[] imageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image imageIn)<br> {<br> MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();<br> imageIn.Save(ms,System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);<br> return ms.ToArray();<br> }<br><br><br>This method uses the System.Drawing.Image.Save method to save the image to a memorystream.<br>The memory stream can then be used to return a byte array using the .ToArray() method in the<br>MemoryStream class.<br><br>Second Method : Convert byte[] array to Image<br><br>public Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArrayIn)<br> {<br> MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(byteArrayIn);<br> Image returnImage = Image.FromStream(ms);<br> return returnImage;<br> <br> }<br><br>This method uses the Image.FromStream method in the Image class to create a method from<br>a memorystream which has been created using a byte array. The image thus created is returned<br>in this method.<br><br>The way I happen to use this method was to transport an image to a web service, by converting it<br>to a byte array and vice-versa.<br><br>Hope this class is useful to the community as well. The code of ImageConverter.cs is attached below.<br><br>Rajan Tawate</font>
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<font color="#000000"><br><b>Introduction<br></b>Image to byte array class:<br><br>Recently I was looking for a class which could convert an System.Drawing.Image to byte[] array and vice versa. After<br>a lot of search on google I realised that it would be faster for me to write this class and also share<br>it with the community.<br><br><br>The class which I wrote is called ImageConverter.cs<br><br>The class has two methods<br><br>First Method : Convert Image to byte[] array<br><br>public byte[] imageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image imageIn)<br> {<br> MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();<br> imageIn.Save(ms,System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);<br> return ms.ToArray();<br> }<br><br><br>This method uses the System.Drawing.Image.Save method to save the image to a memorystream.<br>The memory stream can then be used to return a byte array using the .ToArray() method in the<br>MemoryStream class.<br><br>Second Method : Convert byte[] array to Image<br><br>public Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArrayIn)<br> {<br> MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(byteArrayIn);<br> Image returnImage = Image.FromStream(ms);<br> return returnImage;<br> <br> }<br><br>This method uses the Image.FromStream method in the Image class to create a method from<br>a memorystream which has been created using a byte array. The image thus created is returned<br>in this method.<br><br>The way I happen to use this method was to transport an image to a web service, by converting it<br>to a byte array and vice-versa.<br><br>Hope this class is useful to the community as well. The code of ImageConverter.cs is attached below.<br><br>Rajan Tawate</font>
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