How to display an Image stored in bytes on a page

Question

Hi,

I use to store client Images in DB in bytes, the problem is how can I render that image on .aspx page

Thanks

Answer 1

Instructions can be found here: http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=129&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

in step 4, but the whole article is worth a read.

Answer 2

Two solutions.

1. Build a handler page. That takes an ImageID/RowID as GET parameter and returns data with mimetype image/jpeg or image/png.

2. Use DATA uri scheme as explained on wikipedia.

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