Load a byte[] into an Image at Runtime

Question

I have a byte[] that is represented by an Image. I am downloading this Image via a WebClient. When the WebClient

Answer 1

One way that I figured out how to do it so that it was both fast and thread safe was the following:

 var imgBytes = value as byte[];
 if (imgBytes == null)
  return null;
 using (var stream = new MemoryStream(imgBytes))
   return BitmapFrame.Create(stream,BitmapCreateOptions.None, BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad);

I threw that into a converter for my WPF application after running the images as Varbinary from the DB.