From b7697a01f8c19446698e16edbfe7f4afec7eb5ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kougyokugentou <41278462+kougyokugentou@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:21:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add code to wrangle images in/out of the sql database.

---
 ImageWrangler.cs | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 ImageWrangler.cs

diff --git a/ImageWrangler.cs b/ImageWrangler.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..841e923
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ImageWrangler.cs
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+using System.Drawing;
+using System.IO;
+
+namespace GreatHomeChildcare
+{
+    class ImageWrangler
+    {
+        /* Convert student photo to byte array for saving to db.
+         * Also used to see if the photo is too large for the db blob type.
+         * INPUT: Object
+         * OUPUT byte[] array
+         * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3801275/how-to-convert-image-to-byte-array
+         */
+        public byte[] ImageToByteArray(Image imageIn)
+        {
+            if (imageIn == null)
+                return null;
+
+            using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
+            {
+                imageIn.Save(ms, imageIn.RawFormat);
+                return ms.ToArray();
+            }
+        }
+
+        /* Convert student photo from byte array to object.
+         * Convert a byte array to an Object
+         * INPUT: byte[] array
+         * OUTPUT: Image
+         * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9173904/byte-array-to-image-conversion
+         */
+        public static Image ByteArrayToImage(byte[] arrBytes)
+        {
+            using (var ms = new MemoryStream(arrBytes))
+            {
+                return Image.FromStream(ms);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}