conversion of image to byte array

Question

Can anyone please tell me how an image(.jpg,.gif,.bmp) is converted into a byte array ?

Answer 1

The easiest way to convert an image to bytes is to use the ImageConverter class under the System.Drawing namespace

public static byte[] ImageToByte(Image img)
{
    ImageConverter converter = new ImageConverter();
    return (byte[])converter.ConvertTo(img, typeof(byte[]));
}

Answer 2

I've assumed what you want is the pixel values. Assuming bitmap is a System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource:

int stride = bitmap.PixelWidth * ((bitmap.Format.BitsPerPixel + 7) / 8);
byte[] bmpPixels = new byte[bitmap.PixelHeight * stride];
bitmap.CopyPixels(bmpPixels, stride, 0);

Note that the 'stride' is the number of bytes required for each row of pixel ddata. Some more explanation available here.