Are you interested in this Webservice sample I once made?
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\\\needs a picturebox and 4 buttons on a windowform
Dim ds As New DataSet
Private abyt() As Byte
Private fo As New OpenFileDialog
Private sf As New SaveFileDialog
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'Reading a picture from disk and put it in a bytearray
If fo.ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then
Dim fs As New IO.FileStream(fo.FileName, _
IO.FileMode.Open)
Dim br As New IO.BinaryReader(fs)
abyt = br.ReadBytes(CInt(fs.Length))
br.Close()
'just to show the sample without a fileread error
Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(abyt)
Me.PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(ms)
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal _
e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
'writing a picture from a bytearray to disk
If sf.ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then
Dim fs As New IO.FileStream(sf.FileName, _
IO.FileMode.CreateNew)
Dim bw As New IO.BinaryWriter(fs)
bw.Write(abyt)
bw.Close()
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal _
e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
'writing a bytearray to a webservice dataset
Dim ws As New localhost.DataBaseUpdate
ws.SetDataset(abyt)
End Sub
Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
'reading a picture from a webservice dataset
Dim ws As New localhost.DataBaseUpdate
abyt = ws.GetByte
Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(abyt)
Me.PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(ms)
End Sub
End Class
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\\\\Webservice
<WebMethod()> _
Public Function GetByte() As Byte()
Dim ds As New DataSet
ds.ReadXml("C:\wsblob.xml")
Return CType(ds.Tables(0).Rows(0)(0), Byte())
End Function
<WebMethod()> _
Public Sub SetDataset(ByVal abyte As Byte())
Dim ds As New DataSet
ds.Tables.Add(New DataTable("Photo"))
ds.Tables(0).Columns.Add(New DataColumn("Sample"))
ds.Tables(0).Columns(0).DataType = GetType(System.Byte())
ds.Tables(0).Rows.Add(ds.Tables(0).NewRow)
ds.Tables(0).Rows(0)(0) = abyte
ds.WriteXml("C:\wsblob.xml", XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema)
End Sub
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