I am capturing images from a smart camera imager and receiving the byte array from the camera through socket programming (.NET application is the client, camera is the server).
The problem is that i get System.InvalidArgument exception at runtime.
private Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArray)
{
if(byteArray != null)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
return Image.FromStream(ms, false, false);
/*last argument is supposed to turn Image data validation off*/
}
return null;
}
I have searched this problem in many forums and tried the suggestions given by many experts but nothing helped.
I dont think there is any problem with the byte array as such because When i feed the same byte array into my VC++ MFC client application, i get the image. But this doesn't somehow work in C#.NET.
Can anyone help me ?
P.S :
Other methods i've tried to accomplish the same task are:
1.
private Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArray)
{
if(byteArray != null)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
ms.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
ms.Position = 0;
return Image.FromStream(ms, false, false);
}
return null;
}
2.
private Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArray)
{
if(byteArray != null)
{
TypeConverter tc = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Bitmap));
Bitmap b = (Bitmap)tc.ConvertFrom(byteArray);
return b;
}
return null;
}
None of the above methods worked. Kindly help.
Image.FromStream()
expects a stream that contains ONLY one image!
It resets the stream.Position to 0. I've you have a stream that contains multiple images or other stuff, you have to read your image data into a byte array and to initialize a MemoryStream with that:
Image.FromStream(new MemoryStream(myImageByteArray));
The MemoryStream has to remain open as long as the image is in use.
I've learned that the hard way, too.