Image.FromStrea m - Invalid Parameter Used

[Tom John]

Hi

I am storing images in an access database, based on an MSDN article.
The code i use to store is as follows:

<code>

'Create the command object
Dim command As New OleDbCommand("I mageBlobUpdate" , dataConnection)
Command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure)

'Get the byte array from the posted file
Dim stream As IO.Stream = sourceFile.Impu tStream ' sourceFile is a
HttpPostedFile object
Dim bytes(Cint(stre am.Length() - 1)) As Byte
stream.Read(byt es, 1, bytes.Length)
stream.Close

'Update the record
command.Paramet ers.Add("id", id)
Dim parameter As New OleDbParameter( "[Image]"),
OleDbType.LongV arBinary, bytes.Length, ParameterDirect ion.Imput,
False, 0, 0, Nothing, DataRowVersion. Current, bytes)
command.Paramet ers.Add(paramet er)
command.Execute NonQuery

</code>

This updates the database fine. I then use the following code to
extract it and convert it to the image:

<code>

'Get a reader containing the image data
Dim command As New OleDbCommand("I mageBlobSelect" , dataConnection)
Command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure)
command.Paramet ers.Add("id", id)
Dim reader As OleDbDataReader = command.Execute Reader

'Get the image from the reader
If reader.HasRows Then
reader.Read
Dim bytes(CInt(read er.GetBytes(0, 0, Nothing, 0, Integer.MaxValu e)
- 1)) As Byte
reader.GetBytes (0, 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
Dim stream As New IO.MemoryStream (bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
Dim image As System.Drawing. Image =
System.Drawing. Image.FromStrea m(stream)
End If

'Tidy Up
reader.Close

</code>

When running the code, the error 'Invalid parameter used' is occurs on
the line:

Dim image As System.Drawing. Image =
System.Drawing. Image.FromStrea m(stream)

If i simply write the stream to file, then the file that is created is
the same size as the original image, however it cannot be viewed in
any editor.

The original image is a .JPG.

Any ideas greatly appreciated, I have searched and most solutions
relate to the image header offset, but i do not think this is the
issue.

Cheers

Tom

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Tom,

Did you already see this sample from me?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9590856?hl=en&

I hope this helps,

Cor

[Tom John]

>Did you already see this sample from me?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9590856?hl=en&

Cor

Thanks, yes i have seen your example previously. However, if i
implement your solution to get the image:

<code>

Dim bytes() As Byte = CType(reader.Ge tValue(0), Byte())
Dim stream As New IO.MemoryStream (bytes)
Dim image As Drawing.Image = Drawimg.Image.F romStream(strea m)

</code>

I get the same invalid operator message.

Cheers

Tom

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Tom,

Is it the Ole offset problem.

You see one of those (the most normal one) on this page of us.

http://www.windowsformsdatagridhelp....d-253a1ec85fc3

I hope this helps,

Cor

[Tom John]

>Is it the Ole offset problem.

You see one of those (the most normal one) on this page of us.

http://www.windowsformsdatagridhelp....d-253a1ec85fc3

Cor

Thanks again. I am at work now, so can't test it until later. However
i did play about with the offset, tried 78 bytes (as per the northwind
example database). However the same problem occured, and when i
attempted to write the image to the filesystem, the resulting file was
78 bytes smaller than the original, therefore i assumed that the
offset could not be causing problems.

I'll look into it further this evening.

Cheers

Tom

[Dennis]

Heres routines I wrote to write a byte array to an access database and read
it back. There is no offset needed.

Public Sub WritePicture(Ke yID as Integer, DBConn As OleDb.OleDbConn ection)
'Get Picture from File or whereever into a byte array
Dim fs As FileStream = New System.IO.FileS tream(fname,
IO.FileMode.Ope n, IO.FileAccess.R ead)
Dim byt(CInt(fs.Len gth() - 1)) as Byte
fs.Read(byt, 0, byt.Length)
fs.Close()
'Write Picture to database
Try
DBConn.Open
Dim DBCmd as New OleDb.OleDbComm and("UPDATE ALBUMS SET
FrontCoverPictu re WHERE KeyID = " & Keyid.ToString, DBConn)
Dim P As New OleDb.OleDbPara meter("@FrontCo verPicture",
OleDb.OleDbType .LongVarBinary, Byt.Length, ParameterDirect ion.Input, False,
0, 0, Nothing, DataRowVersion. Current, Byt)
DBCmd.Parameter s.Add(P)
DBCmd.ExecuteNo nQuery()
Catch ex As Exception
'Display Error Message
Finally
DBConn.Close
End Try
End If
End Sub

'Read Image from DataBase
Public Function GetPicture(KeyI d as integer, DBConn as
OleDb.OleDbConn ection ) As Image
Dim Byt as Byte()
Try
DBConn.Open
dim DBCmd as New OleDb.OleDbComm and("SELECT * FROM Albums
WHERE KeyId = " & Keyid.ToString, DBConn)
Dim rdr As OleDb.OleDbData Reader = DBCmd.ExecuteRe ader
While rdr.Read
'Note FrontCoverPictu re is the table name of the picture
column
If Not rdr("FrontCover Picture") Is DBNull.Value Then byt
= CType(rdr("Fron tCoverPicture") , Byte())
End While
Catch ex As Exception
'Display Error Message
Return Nothing
Finally
DBConn.Close
End Try
End If
Return Image.FromStrea m(New IO.MemoryStream (byt))
End Function
--
Dennis in Houston
"Tom John" wrote:

Is it the Ole offset problem.

You see one of those (the most normal one) on this page of us.

http://www.windowsformsdatagridhelp....d-253a1ec85fc3

Cor

Thanks again. I am at work now, so can't test it until later. However
i did play about with the offset, tried 78 bytes (as per the northwind
example database). However the same problem occured, and when i
attempted to write the image to the filesystem, the resulting file was
78 bytes smaller than the original, therefore i assumed that the
offset could not be causing problems.

I'll look into it further this evening.

Cheers

Tom

[Mythran]

>

<code>

'Get a reader containing the image data
Dim command As New OleDbCommand("I mageBlobSelect" , dataConnection)
Command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure)
command.Paramet ers.Add("id", id)
Dim reader As OleDbDataReader = command.Execute Reader

'Get the image from the reader
If reader.HasRows Then
reader.Read
Dim bytes(CInt(read er.GetBytes(0, 0, Nothing, 0, Integer.MaxValu e)
- 1)) As Byte
reader.GetBytes (0, 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
Dim stream As New IO.MemoryStream (bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
Dim image As System.Drawing. Image =
System.Drawing. Image.FromStrea m(stream)
End If

'Tidy Up
reader.Close

</code>

Instead of reading in the byte array twice (once to define the byte array
size, then once to set the byte array), try the following:

Dim bytes As Byte() = CType(reader.Ge tValue(0), Byte()) ' Just get the
value.

That still doesn't solve your problem though...hmm... lemme try it out and
I'll get back to ya :)

Mythran

[Mythran]

I created an MS Access database, with a single table named tblTable. The
table has two columns, id and Image. id is an AutoNumber field and is set
to be the primary key. The Image field is an OLE Object field which will
store the image.

I insert the image into the field using the following method:

Private Shared Sub SaveDetail(ByVa l Connection As OleDbConnection )
Dim command As New OleDbCommand( _
"InsertImageBlo b", _
Connection _
)
Command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure

'Get the byte array from the posted file
Dim stream As IO.Stream = IO.File.OpenRea d("C:\lines.bmp ")
Dim bytes As Byte()
ReDim bytes(stream.Le ngth - 1)

stream.Read(byt es, 0, bytes.Length)
stream.Close

' Insert the record.
command.Paramet ers.Add("id", 1)
command.Paramet ers.Add("Image" , bytes)
Common.WriteLn( command.Execute NonQuery & " rows affected.")
End Sub

I then read the image from the database and write it to disk using the
following:

Private Shared Sub ReadDetail(ByVa l Connection As OleDbConnection )
Dim command As New OleDbCommand( _
"ImageBlobSelec t", _
Connection _
)
command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure
command.Paramet ers.Add("@Id", 1)

Dim reader As OleDbDataReader = command.Execute Reader()
reader.Read()
Dim bytes As Byte() = CType(reader.Ge tValue(0), Byte())
Dim stream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(by tes)
Dim image As Image

' Save the image to disk
Try
image = Image.FromStrea m(stream)
image.Save("C:\ lines_saved.bmp ")
Console.WriteLi ne("Image saved to disk.")
Finally
' Cleanup.
If Not image Is Nothing
image.Dispose()
End If

stream.Close()
End Try
End Sub

Please note, this is not code I would actually use in production. For one,
I would be using another data store (SQL Server most likely). For another,
I would use Microsoft Enterprise Library for my data access layer. Anywho,
that's beside the point. Just posted this as a quick snip for you to try
out and see if it works or not...if it fails, we shall go from there :)

HTH,
Mythran

[Tom John]

Ok, Thanks for all your help on this guys. I think i have narrowed
down the problem.

All your examples use a file from the filesystem and open that as a
stream before saving it to the database, when i try this, it works
fine. However i am trying to save an uploaded image, from the
HttpPostedFile object:

Dim stream As System.IO.Strea m = sourceFile.Inpu tStream

This appears not to be working.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tom

[Mythran]

<Tom John> wrote in message
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Ok, Thanks for all your help on this guys. I think i have narrowed
down the problem.

All your examples use a file from the filesystem and open that as a
stream before saving it to the database, when i try this, it works
fine. However i am trying to save an uploaded image, from the
HttpPostedFile object:

Dim stream As System.IO.Strea m = sourceFile.Inpu tStream

This appears not to be working.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tom

Imports System.Data.Ole Db
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Drawing

....

Private Sub btnSubmit_Click ( _
ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s _
) Handles btnSubmit.Click
' Save the file to disk.
If Request.Files.C ount > 0
Dim file As HttpPostedFile = Request.Files.G et(0)
Dim conn As OleDbConnection
Dim connString As String = _
"Provider=Micro soft.Jet.OLEDB. 4.0;" & _
"Data Source={0};" & _
"User Id=admin;Passwo rd=;"

connString = String.Format( _
connString, _
Server.MapPath( "~/db2.mdb") _
)

' Open the connection to the database.
conn = New OleDbConnection (connString)
conn.Open()

Try
' Save the file to the database.
SaveFile(conn, file)

' Read the file and save to disk.
ReadFile(conn)
Finally
' Cleanup.
conn.Dispose()
End Try
End If
End Sub

Private Sub SaveFile( _
ByVal Connection As OleDbConnection , _
ByVal PostedFile As HttpPostedFile _
)
Dim command As New OleDbCommand( _
"InsertImageBlo b", _
Connection _
)
Command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure

'Get the byte array from the posted file
Dim stream As IO.Stream = PostedFile.Inpu tStream
Dim bytes As Byte()
ReDim bytes(stream.Le ngth - 1)

stream.Read(byt es, 0, bytes.Length)
stream.Close

' Insert the record.
command.Paramet ers.Add("id", 1)
command.Paramet ers.Add("Image" , bytes)
Response.Write( command.Execute NonQuery & " rows affected.<br>")
End Sub

Private Sub ReadFile( _
ByVal Connection As OleDbConnection _
)
Dim command As New OleDbCommand( _
"ImageBlobSelec t", _
Connection _
)
command.Command Type = CommandType.Sto redProcedure
command.Paramet ers.Add("@Id", 1)

Dim reader As OleDbDataReader = command.Execute Reader()
reader.Read()
Dim bytes As Byte() = CType(reader.Ge tValue(0), Byte())
Dim stream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(by tes)
Dim image As Image

' Save the image to disk
Try
image = Image.FromStrea m(stream)
image.Save( _
IO.Path.Combine ( _
Server.MapPath( "~/uploads"), _
"uploaded_file. jpg" _
) _
)
Console.WriteLi ne("Image saved to disk.")
Finally
' Cleanup.
If Not image Is Nothing
image.Dispose()
End If

stream.Close()
End Try
End Sub

....

This works file (note, I tested with JPG's). I uploaded a file to the
database using a file upload control (generic), and then fetched it from the
database and saved it to a file.

HTH,
Mythran