How to store image in strongly typed dataset

[moondaddy]

I'm caching a dataset in an asp.net session variable to hold a user's data.
one data item I need to store is an image the user uploaded. My problem is
that I don't know how to get the image into the dataset because I don't know
what datatype to set the dataset column and then set this image to. I saw
an example where someone defended a datatable in the global class and
defined the column as an object, however, when I define a strongly typed
dataset in the IDE there's no data type called object, binary, or byte().

For a start, here's how I'm getting the image data from the user
(ImageFileField is an inupt element type 'File' in the aspx):

Dim strm As Stream
strm = ImageFileField. PostedFile.Inpu tStream
Dim lngLen As Long = strm.Length
Dim abytBuffer(CInt (lngLen - 1)) As Byte
strm.Read(abytB uffer, 0, CInt(lngLen))

So from here I have a memorystream object and a byte array both with the
image data. So now what do I do?

Thanks.

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[Rulin Hong]

Define datacolumn with XSD data type base64Binary to store image

"moondaddy" wrote:

I'm caching a dataset in an asp.net session variable to hold a user's data.
one data item I need to store is an image the user uploaded. My problem is
that I don't know how to get the image into the dataset because I don't know
what datatype to set the dataset column and then set this image to. I saw
an example where someone defended a datatable in the global class and
defined the column as an object, however, when I define a strongly typed
dataset in the IDE there's no data type called object, binary, or byte().

For a start, here's how I'm getting the image data from the user
(ImageFileField is an inupt element type 'File' in the aspx):

Dim strm As Stream
strm = ImageFileField. PostedFile.Inpu tStream
Dim lngLen As Long = strm.Length
Dim abytBuffer(CInt (lngLen - 1)) As Byte
strm.Read(abytB uffer, 0, CInt(lngLen))

So from here I have a memorystream object and a byte array both with the
image data. So now what do I do?

Thanks.

--
mo*******@nospa m.com

[moondaddy]

Thanks! Thats exactly what I needed.

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"Rulin Hong" <Ru*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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Define datacolumn with XSD data type base64Binary to store image

"moondaddy" wrote:

I'm caching a dataset in an asp.net session variable to hold a user's data. one data item I need to store is an image the user uploaded. My problem is that I don't know how to get the image into the dataset because I don't know what datatype to set the dataset column and then set this image to. I saw an example where someone defended a datatable in the global class and
defined the column as an object, however, when I define a strongly typed
dataset in the IDE there's no data type called object, binary, or byte().
For a start, here's how I'm getting the image data from the user
(ImageFileField is an inupt element type 'File' in the aspx):

Dim strm As Stream
strm = ImageFileField. PostedFile.Inpu tStream
Dim lngLen As Long = strm.Length
Dim abytBuffer(CInt (lngLen - 1)) As Byte
strm.Read(abytB uffer, 0, CInt(lngLen))

So from here I have a memorystream object and a byte array both with the
image data. So now what do I do?

Thanks.

--
mo*******@nospa m.com

[moondaddy]

New problem with this. Yes I can store an image in a base64Binary column,
but when I'm stepping through the code and watching the values of variables
in the watch window, as soon as I assign the image to the dataset column,
the watch window says for the dataset: "Unable to evaluate expression".

Foe example, the text below was copied from the watch window. I put
ds.getxml as a watch:

ds.getxml "<dsCachedImage s
xmlns="http://tempuri.org/dsCachedImages. xsd">
<tbImages>

<SessionID>hefu apb3rcwuzn45fzg eybml</SessionID>
<ImageId />
</tbImages>
</dsCachedImages> " String

then as soon as I assign the image, or rather the byte() variable holding
the image this is what I see in the watch window:

ds.getxml Unable to evaluate expression.

Actually the dataset is still OK as I can retrieve data from the dataset
including the image's byte array. But from this point forward I cant see
into it from the watch window. furthermore, when I get errors, along with
the error information I also record the dataset's contents into the error
log using .getxml so I can see what the data looked like at the time of the
error. now that ds.getxml can not be evaluated, I can't record its contents
into the error log. I also tried converting the byte() into a string and
saving it to a string column in the dataset and got the same result. This is
how I did that:

Dim str As String = System.Text.Enc oding.Default.G etString(abytBu ffer)

and this is what the string looked like in the watch window:
str "ÿØÿá#uExif String

so I appears that the string is still some of binary data which is confusing
the datase. I expected to get a much larger sting for an image 3k in size.

Is there a way to save an image to a dataset and still be able to use
ds.getxml on the dataset?


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"moondaddy" <mo*******@nosp am.com> wrote in message
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Thanks! Thats exactly what I needed.

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mo*******@nospa m.com
"Rulin Hong" <Ru*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:06******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Define datacolumn with XSD data type base64Binary to store image

"moondaddy" wrote:

I'm caching a dataset in an asp.net session variable to hold a user's data. one data item I need to store is an image the user uploaded. My problem

is

that I don't know how to get the image into the dataset because I

don't

know what datatype to set the dataset column and then set this image to. I saw an example where someone defended a datatable in the global class and
defined the column as an object, however, when I define a strongly

typed dataset in the IDE there's no data type called object, binary, or

byte().
For a start, here's how I'm getting the image data from the user
(ImageFileField is an inupt element type 'File' in the aspx):

Dim strm As Stream
strm = ImageFileField. PostedFile.Inpu tStream
Dim lngLen As Long = strm.Length
Dim abytBuffer(CInt (lngLen - 1)) As Byte
strm.Read(abytB uffer, 0, CInt(lngLen))

So from here I have a memorystream object and a byte array both with the image data. So now what do I do?

Thanks.

--
mo*******@nospa m.com

[Peter Huang]

Hi,

I think this should be caused by the ds.GetXml() return a too long string
which exceed the capacity of watch window. The watch window is designed for
the debugging environment to display the values of variables, it is not
designed for holding a large string.

Imports System.IO
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim ds As New Dataset1
Dim fs As New FileStream _
("C:\test\TestP IC\Dollar.gif", FileMode.OpenOr Create, _
FileAccess.Read )
Dim MyData(fs.Lengt h) As Byte
fs.Read(MyData, 0, fs.Length)
fs.Close()
Dim myRow As DataRow
myRow = ds.TestTable.Ne wRow()
myRow(0) = "This would be description text"
myRow(1) = MyData
ds.TestTable.Ro ws.Add(myRow)
' I think we can try to use the debug.wrtieline to output the long string
or output the string to a file.
Debug.WriteLine (ds.GetXml())
fs = Nothing
ds = Nothing
End Sub
End Module

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[moondaddy]

Thanks that answers it.

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""Peter Huang"" <v-******@online.m icrosoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I think this should be caused by the ds.GetXml() return a too long string
which exceed the capacity of watch window. The watch window is designed for the debugging environment to display the values of variables, it is not
designed for holding a large string.

Imports System.IO
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim ds As New Dataset1
Dim fs As New FileStream _
("C:\test\TestP IC\Dollar.gif", FileMode.OpenOr Create, _
FileAccess.Read )
Dim MyData(fs.Lengt h) As Byte
fs.Read(MyData, 0, fs.Length)
fs.Close()
Dim myRow As DataRow
myRow = ds.TestTable.Ne wRow()
myRow(0) = "This would be description text"
myRow(1) = MyData
ds.TestTable.Ro ws.Add(myRow)
' I think we can try to use the debug.wrtieline to output the long string
or output the string to a file.
Debug.WriteLine (ds.GetXml())
fs = Nothing
ds = Nothing
End Sub
End Module

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.