Bitmap on the fly

[Proqrammer]

Hi there,
Is there anyway to have a bitmap object (system.drawing.bitmap) on the fly? I read my images from database and I don't want to save them somewhere before showing them in a picture box, so it would be really nice if I could create a bitmap variable and read the data from database and then simply put the data in the object and show it.

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[Mastakilla]

Here's a little article that will help you.

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ImageBinaryStream.asp

Sample of the article :

' This function returns the image retrieved from the database
Private Function GetImageFromDB(ByVal ImageID As Integer) As Image    
    Dim image As Image
    ...
    ...

    Try
        sqlCommand = "SELECT Image FROM ImageTable WHERE ImageID = "_
                     + ImageID.ToString()
        
        ...
               
        Dim dr As SqlDataReader
        dr = cmd.ExecuteReader()
        While (dr.Read())

            Dim byt As Byte()
            byt = dr.Item(strImage)
            ' Convert the image bytes to System.Drawing.Image
            Dim bmp As New Bitmap(New System.IO.MemoryStream(byt))
            image = bmp
                    
        End While
    
    ...
    
    End Try

    Return image

End Function