Question

I have a external link with an image which i want to stream, but i get this error when i try.

error
“URI formats are not supported.”

I tried to stream:
Stream fileStream = new FileStream(“http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/images/image-2.jpg”, FileMode.Open);
byte[] fileContent = new byte[fileStream.Length];

can anyone put some light on this.

Thanks

Answer 1

FileStream doesn’t support the opening files over the internet.

Try this:

var webClient = new WebClient();
using(var fileStream = webClient.OpenRead("http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/images/image-2.jpg")) 
{
    byte[] fileContent = new byte[fileStream.Length];       
}