Web Image Control Question

[G Dean Blake]

I have a Bitmap (system.drawing.bitmap) in a varaible that was just
retreived from a database blob field. I have my aspx page with an image
control on it. It appears, having those two things, there is no direct way
in which I can load my bitmap into my image control.

is there?

It appears that the only way to get a bitmap into the image control is by
using the ImageURL which means I will either have to reference another page
that will have to re-retrieve it from the database or write it to a file on
the server as a .jpg and reference it that way.

Any way to just do t his in memory?

Thanks,
G

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can do it all in memory, but you will still need a second page (or you
could use an HTTP Handler for slightly better performance, but that's more
complicated)

Here's an example:
http://SteveOrr.net/articles/ImproveYourImages.aspx

 

[Brock Allen]

Yep you can; Build a custom handler like this one:

http://staff.develop.com/ballen/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2d8b430b-8361-416d-9df8-9aff48bf2481

 

[G Dean Blake]

I read your article. I'm already getting the image from another aspx page.
The problem is that I have to read the image from the database in my main
aspx page in order to get the aspect ratio to then adjust the image control.
so I have to read the image twice from the database - or use session memory.
Gary