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 static byte[] ImageToByteArray(Image imageIn) { if (imageIn == null) return null; if (imageIn == Properties.Resources.child) 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); } } /* Nowhere else to put this. * Capitalize the first letter of a given string * then return the string. * Ref: https://www.educative.io/edpresso/how-to-capitalize-the-first-letter-of-a-string-in-c-sharp */ public static string CapitalizeFirstLetter(string str) { if (str.Length <= 0) return null; else if (str.Length == 1) return char.ToUpper(str[0]).ToString(); else { string output = string.Empty; output = char.ToUpper(str[0]).ToString(); int i = 1; for(i=1; i < str.Length; i++) { output += char.ToLower(str[i]).ToString(); } return output; } } } }