Question

I have an application that allows users to upload videos to the server and part of the process is to create a thumbnail image on the client that will be used for the video when loaded on the server. I have a writeablebitmap that I want to convert to a jpeg and upload to the server.

Is it possible to do this without saving the jpeg to the user’s computer first – I do not want to require a trusted app. Is it possible to store it in isolatedstorage first and then upload it from there as if it is just another file on the user’s computer?

thanks
Michael

Answer 1

I implemented a solution that allows me to take a WriteableBitmap, convert it to a JPEG using FJCore and write it to a MemoryStream and send it to the server.

FluxJpeg.Core.Encoder.JpegEncoder encoder = new FluxJpeg.Core.Encoder.JpegEncoder(img, quality, stream);

see: Using FJCore to encode Silverlight WriteableBitmap

Then I found a great FileUploader class which I modified to upload a MemoryStream avoiding having to create a local file first.

ORIG:

public void StartUpload(FileInfo file)

MODIFIED:

public void StartUpload(Stream fileStream)

see: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SL4FileUploadAnd_SL4_MVVM.aspx

On the server I used the FileUpload.ashx described in the link above to accept the chunks of the stream and write them to a file on the server.

Calling the FileUpload.ashx using a HttpWebRequest, the MemoryStream is sent up in chunks until the end of the stream is reached.

As they bytes are received on the server they are written out to a file in a specified location.

• Michael