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); } } } }