Question

I know there is no .Net function that exists for checking, but is there an algorithm or easy and effective way of checking if a byte is a valid image before I use the byte array. I need this because I’m sending different commands to a server who is constantly listening to the client and one of the commands is to get the screenshot of the server’s computer.

Answer 1

You can try to generate an image from the byte array and check for the ArgumentException if its not.

public static bool IsValidImage(byte[] bytes)
{
    try {
        using(MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(bytes))
           Image.FromStream(ms);
    }
    catch (ArgumentException) {
       return false;
    }
    return true; 
}