WPF Image to byte[]

Question

I'm trying to convert from System.Windows.Controls.Image to byte[] and I didnt know which method from Image class could help in this scenary, by the way I really dont know what should I do, cause in my LINQ model the field appears as Binary type, I have to change this if I want to save it like a byte[] type?

I found code posted here, but without using WPF:

Bitmap newBMP = new Bitmap(originalBMP, newWidth, newHeight);
System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
newBMP.Save(stream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
PHJProjectPhoto myPhoto = new PHJProjectPhoto {
    ProjectPhoto = stream.ToArray(), // <<--- This will convert your stream to a byte[] 
    OrderDate = DateTime.Now, 
    ProjectPhotoCaption = ProjectPhotoCaptionTextBox.Text,
    ProjectId = selectedProjectId
};

Answer 1

public byte[] BufferFromImage(BitmapImage imageSource)
{        
    Stream stream = imageSource.StreamSource;
    byte[] buffer = null;

    if (stream != null && stream.Length > 0)
    {
        using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(stream))
        {
            buffer = br.ReadBytes((Int32)stream.Length);
        }
    }

    return buffer;
}

would be another way, but difference is this have less bytes[x] than first solution

Answer 2

I don't know how your Image is declared, but suppose we have this XAML declaration:

<Image x:Name="img">
    <Image.Source>
        <BitmapImage UriSource="test.png" />
    </Image.Source>
</Image>

Then you can convert the contents of test.png to a byte-array like this:

var bmp = img.Source as BitmapImage;

int height = bmp.PixelHeight;
int width  = bmp.PixelWidth;
int stride = width * ((bmp.Format.BitsPerPixel + 7) / 8);

byte[] bits = new byte[height * stride];
bmp.CopyPixels(bits, stride, 0);