Convert System.Drawing. Image to FileStream

[Toby Mathews]

Hi,

In an ASP.Net application I want to convert open create a FileStream
object from a System.Drawing. Image - is this possible? I create an instance
of an Image object using the FromFile method, then use the GetThumbnailIma ge
method to create a second Image. This second one is the one I want to get a
FileStream from, so that I can then use its Handle to use Response.WriteF ile
to output the thumbnail on my ASP.Net page.

Any help would be much appreciated - I realise I may not even be going
about this in the most appropriate way! Thanks in advance,

Toby Mathews

[Toby Mathews]

Apologies, first line should read:

"In an ASP.Net application I want to create a FileStream..."

"Toby Mathews" <NO***********@ NOSPAMcix.co.uk > wrote in message
news:uO******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

Hi,

In an ASP.Net application I want to convert open create a FileStream
object from a System.Drawing. Image - is this possible? I create an instance of an Image object using the FromFile method, then use the GetThumbnailIma ge method to create a second Image. This second one is the one I want to get a FileStream from, so that I can then use its Handle to use Response.WriteF ile to output the thumbnail on my ASP.Net page.

Any help would be much appreciated - I realise I may not even be going
about this in the most appropriate way! Thanks in advance,

Toby Mathews

[Cor]

Hi Toby,

I made a sample that works. In a nice way.
It is not a thumbnail, but that you can make using the memorystream.
It is imposible to put an image from a stream direct on a webpage.
A webpage can only show an IMG.
If you want to use a thumbnail, you first needs to convert that there is a
special class for that.

I hope this is something you need.
\\\For the database the image database sample from the Resource kit is used.
\\\It needs 2 forms with on form1 a listbox, a picturebox and a label and
on form2 nothing
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
If Not IsPostBack Then
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection _
("Server=localh ost;" & "DataBase=North wind;" & _
"Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand("SELECT FileName, PictureID
FROM Picture", conn)
Dim da As New SqlClient.SqlDa taAdapter(cmd)
Dim dsPictures As New DataSet
da.Fill(dsPictu res)
Me.Image1.Visib le = False
ListBox1.AutoPo stBack = True
Try
ListBox1.DataSo urce = dsPictures.Tabl es(0)
ListBox1.DataTe xtField = "FileName"
ListBox1.DataVa lueField = "PictureID"
ListBox1.DataBi nd()
Catch sqlExc As SqlClient.SqlEx ception
Me.Label1.Text = "Database Error"
Catch exc As Exception
Me.Label1.Text = "Datbase Connection Failed!"
End Try
conn.Close()
End If
End Sub
Private Sub ListBox1_Select edIndexChanged( ByVal sender _
As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles
ListBox1.Select edIndexChanged
Session.Item("i mg") = ListBox1.Select edItem.Value
Image1.Visible = True
Image1.ImageUrl = "http://localhost/WebApplication1/WebForm2.aspx"
End Sub
///
\\\
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection("Serve r=localhost;" & _
"DataBase=North wind;" & "Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim sqlstr As String = _
String.Format(" SELECT Picture FROM Picture WHERE (PictureID = {0})",
CInt(Session.It em("img")))
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand(sqlstr, conn)
conn.Open()
Dim rdr As SqlClient.SqlDa taReader = cmd.ExecuteRead er()
rdr.Read()
Response.Binary Write(CType(rdr .Item("Picture" ), Byte()))
rdr.Close()
conn.Close()
End Sub
///
I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

In an ASP.Net application I want to convert open create a FileStream
object from a System.Drawing. Image - is this possible? I create an instance

of an Image object using the FromFile method, then use the

GetThumbnailIma ge

method to create a second Image. This second one is the one I want to

get a

FileStream from, so that I can then use its Handle to use

Response.WriteF ile

to output the thumbnail on my ASP.Net page.

Any help would be much appreciated - I realise I may not even be going
about this in the most appropriate way! Thanks in advance,

Toby Mathews

[Cor]

Hi Toby

I made a sample that works in a nice way. It is not a thumbnail, but that you can make using the memorystream. Skip that row above was an error I forgot to delete.
It is imposible to put an image from a stream direct on a webpage.
A webpage can only show an IMG.
If you want to use a thumbnail, you first needs to convert that there is a
special class for that.

Cor

[Toby Mathews]

Cor,

Thanks for the reply, I don't think that's quite what I'm after and I
can't see how to adapt it. Here's some example code to try to show what it
is I want to do (I'm using C# but I can understand your VB):

// First get my original image.
System.Drawing. Image.GetThumbn ailImageAbort myCallback = new
System.Drawing. Image.GetThumbn ailImageAbort(T humbnailCallbac k);
System.Drawing. Image img = System.Drawing. Image.FromFile( @"c:\img.jpg ");

// Then make the thumbnail
img = img.GetThumbnai lImage(100, 100, myCallback, IntPtr.Zero);

// Then somehow make the FileStream and get a reference to the FileHandle.
FileStream MyFileStream = ... // don't know what to do here?
IntPtr FileHandle = MyFileStream.Ha ndle;

// Finally write this.
Response.WriteF ile(FileHandle, 0, MyFileStream.Le ngth);

Does that make sense?

Thanks for your help so far, and apologies if I have missed something in
your reply.

Toby

"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:es******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

Hi Toby,

I made a sample that works. In a nice way.
It is not a thumbnail, but that you can make using the memorystream.
It is imposible to put an image from a stream direct on a webpage.
A webpage can only show an IMG.
If you want to use a thumbnail, you first needs to convert that there is a
special class for that.

I hope this is something you need.
\\\For the database the image database sample from the Resource kit is used. \\\It needs 2 forms with on form1 a listbox, a picturebox and a label and
on form2 nothing
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
If Not IsPostBack Then
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection _
("Server=localh ost;" & "DataBase=North wind;" & _
"Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand("SELECT FileName, PictureID FROM Picture", conn)
Dim da As New SqlClient.SqlDa taAdapter(cmd)
Dim dsPictures As New DataSet
da.Fill(dsPictu res)
Me.Image1.Visib le = False
ListBox1.AutoPo stBack = True
Try
ListBox1.DataSo urce = dsPictures.Tabl es(0)
ListBox1.DataTe xtField = "FileName"
ListBox1.DataVa lueField = "PictureID"
ListBox1.DataBi nd()
Catch sqlExc As SqlClient.SqlEx ception
Me.Label1.Text = "Database Error"
Catch exc As Exception
Me.Label1.Text = "Datbase Connection Failed!"
End Try
conn.Close()
End If
End Sub
Private Sub ListBox1_Select edIndexChanged( ByVal sender _
As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles
ListBox1.Select edIndexChanged
Session.Item("i mg") = ListBox1.Select edItem.Value
Image1.Visible = True
Image1.ImageUrl = "http://localhost/WebApplication1/WebForm2.aspx"
End Sub
///
\\\
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection("Serve r=localhost;" & _
"DataBase=North wind;" & "Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim sqlstr As String = _
String.Format(" SELECT Picture FROM Picture WHERE (PictureID = {0})", CInt(Session.It em("img")))
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand(sqlstr, conn)
conn.Open()
Dim rdr As SqlClient.SqlDa taReader = cmd.ExecuteRead er()
rdr.Read()
Response.Binary Write(CType(rdr .Item("Picture" ), Byte()))
rdr.Close()
conn.Close()
End Sub
///
I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

In an ASP.Net application I want to convert open create a FileStream
object from a System.Drawing. Image - is this possible? I create an

instance

of an Image object using the FromFile method, then use the

GetThumbnailIma ge

method to create a second Image. This second one is the one I want to

get

a

FileStream from, so that I can then use its Handle to use

Response.WriteF ile

to output the thumbnail on my ASP.Net page.

Any help would be much appreciated - I realise I may not even be going about this in the most appropriate way! Thanks in advance,

Toby Mathews

[Cor]

Hi Toby,

I changed it so it works now with a thumbnail.
That hard it cannot be to change it in C#

The changes are all on the second form.
What is the trick.
It is posible to send a bytearray to a webpage and that will create a form.
But that image is immidiatly also the page.
Not nice such a page in the left uperside of the form and no text.

The trick is to make such a page and than use that page "the URL" as the
imput for your your real image on page. That page is my form1.

I will try to make it as C# also but not today or tomorrow I think.

I hope this does help you

Cor

\\\\
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection("Serve r=localhost;" & _
"DataBase=North wind;" & "Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim sqlstr As String = _
String.Format(" SELECT Picture FROM Picture WHERE (PictureID = {0})",
CInt(Session.It em("img")))
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand(sqlstr, conn)
conn.Open()
Dim rdr As SqlClient.SqlDa taReader = cmd.ExecuteRead er()
rdr.Read()
Dim arrImage() As Byte
arrImage = (CType(rdr.Item ("Picture"), Byte()))
Dim ms1 As New System.IO.Memor yStream(arrImag e)
Dim origimage As System.drawing. Image
origimage = System.Drawing. Image.FromStrea m(ms1)
Dim PThumbnail As System.drawing. Image
PThumbnail = origimage.GetTh umbnailImage(10 0, 100, Nothing, New
IntPtr)
Dim ms2 As New System.IO.Memor yStream
PThumbnail.Save (ms2, Imaging.ImageFo rmat.Bmp)
arrImage = ms2.GetBuffer
Response.Binary Write(arrImage)
rdr.Close()
conn.Close()
End Sub
///

[Toby Mathews]

Cor,

Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I needed! I was almost doing the right
thing, but I was using the FileStream rather than MemoryhStream. Thanks
again,

Toby

"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:eO******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

Hi Toby,

I changed it so it works now with a thumbnail.
That hard it cannot be to change it in C#

The changes are all on the second form.
What is the trick.
It is posible to send a bytearray to a webpage and that will create a form. But that image is immidiatly also the page.
Not nice such a page in the left uperside of the form and no text.

The trick is to make such a page and than use that page "the URL" as the
imput for your your real image on page. That page is my form1.

I will try to make it as C# also but not today or tomorrow I think.

I hope this does help you

Cor

\\\\
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection("Serve r=localhost;" & _
"DataBase=North wind;" & "Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim sqlstr As String = _
String.Format(" SELECT Picture FROM Picture WHERE (PictureID = {0})", CInt(Session.It em("img")))
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand(sqlstr, conn)
conn.Open()
Dim rdr As SqlClient.SqlDa taReader = cmd.ExecuteRead er()
rdr.Read()
Dim arrImage() As Byte
arrImage = (CType(rdr.Item ("Picture"), Byte()))
Dim ms1 As New System.IO.Memor yStream(arrImag e)
Dim origimage As System.drawing. Image
origimage = System.Drawing. Image.FromStrea m(ms1)
Dim PThumbnail As System.drawing. Image
PThumbnail = origimage.GetTh umbnailImage(10 0, 100, Nothing, New
IntPtr)
Dim ms2 As New System.IO.Memor yStream
PThumbnail.Save (ms2, Imaging.ImageFo rmat.Bmp)
arrImage = ms2.GetBuffer
Response.Binary Write(arrImage)
rdr.Close()
conn.Close()
End Sub
///

[vMike]

I think this is what you are looking for. mynewimage is your
system.drawing. image. You may have to change the format. You also might want
to add Response.Conten tType = "image/jpeg" before you output the stream.

mynewimage.Save (Response.Outpu tStream, ImageFormat.Jpe g)

"Toby Mathews" <NO***********@ NOSPAMcix.co.uk > wrote in message
news:uO******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

Hi,

In an ASP.Net application I want to convert open create a FileStream
object from a System.Drawing. Image - is this possible? I create an instance of an Image object using the FromFile method, then use the GetThumbnailIma ge method to create a second Image. This second one is the one I want to get a FileStream from, so that I can then use its Handle to use Response.WriteF ile to output the thumbnail on my ASP.Net page.

Any help would be much appreciated - I realise I may not even be going
about this in the most appropriate way! Thanks in advance,

Toby Mathews