Getting an Image object from a byte array

Question

I\'ve got a byte array for an image (stored in the database). I want to create an Image object, create several Images of different sizes and store them back in the database (sa

Answer 1

Based on your comments to another answer, you can try this for performing a transformation on an image that's stored in a byte[] then returning the result as another byte[].

public byte[] TransformImage(byte[] imageData)
{
    using(var input = new MemoryStream(imageData))
    {
        using(Image img = Image.FromStream(input))
        {
            // perform your transformations

            using(var output = new MemoryStream())
            {
                img.Save(output, ImageFormat.Bmp);

                return output.ToArray();
            }
        }
    }
}

This will allow you to pass in the byte[] stored in the database, perform whatever transformations you need to, then return a new byte[] that can be stored back in the database.