Showing posts with label Picture Box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picture Box. Show all posts

Monday, April 2, 2012

How To Retrieve an image SQL Server Data type into Picture Box Using C#

Note: Before reading this blog,  you need to know (How To Store an Image to image SQL Server Data type Using C#)

Images are stored in SQL Server database as series of bytes; to retrieve an image into Picture Box follow these steps

1- Crete a stored procedure that do select command on an image
2- In C# code get the array byte retrieved from the database and convert it to Image 
        
        public static Image byteArrayToImage(byte[] byteArrayIn)
        {
            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(byteArrayIn);
            Image returnImage = Image.FromStream(ms);
            return returnImage;
        }


3- Set the converted image to the picture box 


For more details watch this video







and download the source code for experiment purposes