How to to return an image with Web API Get method

Question

I need to return an image with a Web API Get method. The code below seems to work fine except that I get this message in the Fiddler\'s ImageView window, \"This response is

Answer 1

In addition to previous answers, use this to get image based on hosting environment within System.Web.Hosting namespace.

var imageUrl = HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/images/photo.png");

and use imageUrl it to find byte[] of the image, and process with proper content-type like image/jpeg

byte[] binaryImage = File.ReadAllBytes(imageUrl);   
return File(binaryImage , "image/jpeg");

Make sure you have referenced System.IO namespace for File static method.