How to convert an image to bytes to save it in a database and retrieve from database?

Question

I am trying to convert an image to bytes to save it in a database and retrieve from database.

How can I do that?

The question was already answered http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3548401/how-to-save-image-in-database-using-c-sharp — G.Anıl Yalçın, Nov 05 '14 at 12:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '14 at 12:35

You can create a MemoryStream, save the image to it, and use the ToArray method to get the bytes:

This code assumes you have an Image named image:

byte[] bytes;
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
    image.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Png);
    bytes = ms.ToArray();
}

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