Question

I have saved an image in database using following code.

ofd.ShowDialog()
    vrPicHolder = IO.File.ReadAllBytes(ofd.FileName)
    Dim drPic As DataRow
    drPic = DsPic.tblPicTest.NewRow
    drPic.Item("Picture") = vrPicHolder
    DsPic.tblPicTest.Rows.Add(drPic)
    taPic.Update(DsPic.tblPicTest)

Now I want to display this image in a picture box. I tried

PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile(vrPicHolder)

But it says can not convert Byte() to string. Please advise how to load this picture.
Thanks
Furqan

Answer 1

The method you’re calling expects a string that’s the filename of an image. You need to pass it the filename of an image that is a BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG or TIFF format.

Image.FromFile Method (String)

What you should be doing is this:

Dim pictureBytes as New MemoryStream(vrPicHolder)
PicutureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(pictureBytes)

Image.FromStream Method (Stream)