Silverlight: image to byte[]

Question

I\'m able to convert a byte[] to an image:

byte[] myByteArray = ...;  // ByteArray to be converted

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(my);
BitmapImage bi =          


        

Answer 1

There is no solution that works in Silverlight by design. Images can be retrieved without the need to conform to any cross domain access policy as other http requests have to. The basis of this relaxation of the cross domain rules is that the data making up the image cannot be be retrieved in the raw. It can only be used as an image.

If you want to simply write to and read from a bitmap image use the WriteableBitmap class instead of BitmapImage. The WriteableBitmap exposes a Pixels property not available on the BitmapImage.