Question

I have a VS 2008, .NET 3.5 targeted MVC.NET app. I am developing on Windows 7 with its IIS, but deploying to a Windows Server 2003 environment with .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.

We have a image scaling action that returns an image from the database in the requested resolution, and converts to PNG on the fly with System.Drawing and System.Drawing.Imaging APIs.

The image served up via the deployed site is 1/2 the size/quality of the one in development. The source image is identical, but requesting via the deployed site results in a 6.35 kb PNG of 154×200, but on development it results in a 12.28 kb PNG of 154×200.

My suspicion is there is some difference in the .NET graphics lib on 3.5 SP1 on Windows server? My app explicitly targets the .NET 3.5 runtime.

      Image image = Image.FromStream(new MemoryStream(document.content));
      MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
      Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(image, (int)width, (int)height);
      ImageFormat format = ImageFormat.Png;
      string mimeType = document.mimeType;
      if(document.mimeType == "image/png")
          ; // format = ImageFormat.Png;
      else if (document.mimeType == "image/jpeg")
         format = ImageFormat.Jpeg;
      else if (document.mimeType == "image/gif")
         format = ImageFormat.Gif;
      else if (document.mimeType == "image/tiff")
      {
         format = ImageFormat.Png; // convert tiff to png
         mimeType = "image/png";
      }

      bmp.Save(memStream, format);

HTTP headers are:
Development:
Cache-Control private
Content-Type image/png
Server Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version 2.0
X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By ASP.NET
Date Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:59:50 GMT
Content-Length 12574

Production:
Date Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:02:58 GMT
Server Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version 2.0
Cache-Control private
Content-Type image/png
Content-Length 6514

Answer 1

Maybe you need to set the pixel format or other options that you’re just using the default value for: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/imageresize.aspx