Resizing a transparent image adds gray background

[Oleg Ogurok]

Hi all,

I'm having this problem. I have a 50x50 GIF image with a transparent
background. I'm trying to resize it to 25x25 using GDI+ capabilities.
With Windows Forms' Image control, the image shows fine. However, when I try
to stream the image into a browser in a ASP.NET application, the background
that's supposed to be transparent looks grayish.

Here's my codebehind:

private void Page_Load(objec t sender, System.EventArg s e)
{
Stream stream =
Assembly.GetExe cutingAssembly( ).GetManifestRe sourceStream("W ebStaging.Img.g if");
// read the file from assembly
Image img = Image.FromStrea m(stream);
img = new Bitmap(img, 25, 25); // resize to 25x25
string contentType = "image/png";
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
img.Save(memStr eam, ImageFormat.Png );
byte[] rawBytes = memStream.ToArr ay();
Response.Conten tType = contentType;
Response.Binary Write(rawBytes) ;
Response.End();
}

I've tried streaming the file as GIF, the background becomes even darker.
Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
-Oleg.