Question

I heard that framework 2.0 supports image url but I cant find it. Is there any way to display an image directly from Url in C#? (Desktop Application)

Normally my followed way is that I download image after return an image. Here is my code.. But I dont want to follow that kind of way. So I am looking for a method which doesnt use Httpwebrequest or like that..

  public Image DownloadImage(string _URL)
        {
            Image _tmpImage = null;

            try
            {
                // Open a connection
                System.Net.HttpWebRequest _HttpWebRequest = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(_URL);

                _HttpWebRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true;

                // You can also specify additional header values like the user agent or the referer: (Optional)
                _HttpWebRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)";
                _HttpWebRequest.Referer = "http://www.google.com/";

                // set timeout for 20 seconds (Optional)
                _HttpWebRequest.Timeout = 20000;

                // Request response:
                System.Net.WebResponse _WebResponse = _HttpWebRequest.GetResponse();

                // Open data stream:
                System.IO.Stream _WebStream = _WebResponse.GetResponseStream();

                // convert webstream to image
                _tmpImage = Image.FromStream(_WebStream);

                // Cleanup
                _WebResponse.Close();
                _WebResponse.Close();
            }
            catch (Exception _Exception)
            {
                // Error
                Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in process: {0}", _Exception.ToString());
                return null;
            }

            return _tmpImage;
        } 

I am looking for an alternative way. I dont know what can be.. ? I want to learn how can I handle that..

Answer 1

you can use this code

string remoteUri = "http://www.yourSite.com/library/homepage/images/";
string fileName = "YourImagegif", 
myStringWebResource = null;
// Create a new WebClient instance.
WebClient myWebClient = new WebClient();
// Concatenate the domain with the Web resource filename.
myStringWebResource = remoteUri + fileName;
Console.WriteLine("Downloading File \"{0}\" from \"{1}\" .......\n\n", fileName, myStringWebResource);
// Download the Web resource and save it into the current filesystem folder.
myWebClient.DownloadFile(myStringWebResource,fileName);