Retrieve LONGBLOB from MySQL in C#

Question

I want to retrieve a LONGBLOB from my MySQL database but I don\'t know how. I have searched the interwebz and nothing really helpful (understandable) was found. When I retri

Answer 1

I actually did this as part of a project I was working on...

public Bitmap loadImage(int imgID)
        {

            MySqlDataReader myData;
            MySqlCommand cmd = new MySqlCommand();

            string SQL;
            byte[] rawData;
            MemoryStream ms;
            UInt32 FileSize;
            Bitmap outImage;

            SQL = "SELECT ImageName, ImageSize, Image FROM Images WHERE ImageID =";
            SQL += imgID.ToString();

            try
            {
                cmd.Connection = connection;
                cmd.CommandText = SQL;

                myData = cmd.ExecuteReader();

                if (!myData.HasRows)
                    throw new Exception("There are no blobs to save");

                myData.Read();

                FileSize = myData.GetUInt32(myData.GetOrdinal("ImageSize"));
                rawData = new byte[FileSize];

                myData.GetBytes(myData.GetOrdinal("Image"), 0, rawData, 0, (Int32)FileSize);


                ms = new MemoryStream(rawData);
                outImage = new Bitmap(ms);
                ms.Close();
                ms.Dispose();

                myData.Close();
                myData.Dispose();

                cmd.Dispose();

                return outImage;


            }
            catch (MySqlException ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
                return null;
            }

        }

Hope this helps. Also please excuse any bad coding practices, this was written a while ago.

Thanks Tom