Hello All,  want to be able to pull images from the database and load them 
into a bitmap through a stream which I have working.  I then want to take 
the bitmap and load it into a Image control without haveing to save the 
bitmap as a file.  Is this possible?  Currently, I just display the bitmap 
by calling Bitmap.save however, if users do not know to click the image they 
can not see the full size.  If I can create a bitmap from the stream I know 
the size so I can set the properties of a image control and then display the 
bitmap in the image.  Does this make since or am I going about this the 
wrong way?  So in a nutshell, I am pulling images from a DB and want to 
display the full size without having to actuall save the image to a file. 
Any pointers?

TIA

You can make an mypage.aspx page that returns bitmap (not HTML)
1. You need to set ContentType = "img/gif"; or (jpg)
2. You need to set ContentLength to the size of the image
3. Use Response.BinaryWrite to output the image.  Or since Response is a 
Stream you can do Bitmap.Save(Response);

in your HTML you write <img src="mypage.aspx">


PS: It's more efficient to use handler for that task. mypage.ashx. But aspx 
will work too if you fill more comfortable with aspx.

George.



"MikeB"  wrote in message 
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> Hello All,  want to be able to pull images from the database and load them 
> into a bitmap through a stream which I have working.  I then want to take 
> the bitmap and load it into a Image control without haveing to save the 
> bitmap as a file.  Is this possible?  Currently, I just display the bitmap 
> by calling Bitmap.save however, if users do not know to click the image 
> they can not see the full size.  If I can create a bitmap from the stream 
> I know the size so I can set the properties of a image control and then 
> display the bitmap in the image.  Does this make since or am I going about 
> this the wrong way?  So in a nutshell, I am pulling images from a DB and 
> want to display the full size without having to actuall save the image to 
> a file. Any pointers?
>
> TIA
> 

Here is a way to do this without relying on an external handler such as 
another page:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20050911.asp

-Peter
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"MikeB" wrote:


> Hello All,  want to be able to pull images from the database and load them 
> into a bitmap through a stream which I have working.  I then want to take 
> the bitmap and load it into a Image control without haveing to save the 
> bitmap as a file.  Is this possible?  Currently, I just display the bitmap 
> by calling Bitmap.save however, if users do not know to click the image they 
> can not see the full size.  If I can create a bitmap from the stream I know 
> the size so I can set the properties of a image control and then display the 
> bitmap in the image.  Does this make since or am I going about this the 
> wrong way?  So in a nutshell, I am pulling images from a DB and want to 
> display the full size without having to actuall save the image to a file. 
> Any pointers?
> 
> TIA 
> 
> 
> 

Your page can have an Image control on it, and that Image control can point 
to another page (or handler) that retrieves the image.
Here are the details:
http://SteveOrr.net/articles/ImproveYourImages.aspx
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/FileDenial.aspx

-- 
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr,
MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
http://SteveOrr.net



"MikeB"  wrote in message 
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> Hello All,  want to be able to pull images from the database and load them 
> into a bitmap through a stream which I have working.  I then want to take 
> the bitmap and load it into a Image control without haveing to save the 
> bitmap as a file.  Is this possible?  Currently, I just display the bitmap 
> by calling Bitmap.save however, if users do not know to click the image 
> they can not see the full size.  If I can create a bitmap from the stream 
> I know the size so I can set the properties of a image control and then 
> display the bitmap in the image.  Does this make since or am I going about 
> this the wrong way?  So in a nutshell, I am pulling images from a DB and 
> want to display the full size without having to actuall save the image to 
> a file. Any pointers?
>
> TIA
> 

Thanks everyone for the replies.

"MikeB"  wrote in message 
news:usruSre3HHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hello All,  want to be able to pull images from the database and load them 
> into a bitmap through a stream which I have working.  I then want to take 
> the bitmap and load it into a Image control without haveing to save the 
> bitmap as a file.  Is this possible?  Currently, I just display the bitmap 
> by calling Bitmap.save however, if users do not know to click the image 
> they can not see the full size.  If I can create a bitmap from the stream 
> I know the size so I can set the properties of a image control and then 
> display the bitmap in the image.  Does this make since or am I going about 
> this the wrong way?  So in a nutshell, I am pulling images from a DB and 
> want to display the full size without having to actuall save the image to 
> a file. Any pointers?
>
> TIA
>