Question

I use MVC4, Razor and C#. I would like to have Service, for example:

[WebGet]
[OperationContract]
public string Get(int id)
{
  PictureManager m = new PictureManager();
  Picture p = m.Load(id);
  return Convert.ToBase64String(p.Trunk);
}

where:

public byte[] Trunk { get { return _trunk; } }

And on the client side I would like use it in the same way:

<img src="http://MyService/MyPictures/Get?id=21"> 

Is there the same ability? Or maybe I need to use some JavaScript to show a picture on client side? Could you please show me direction?

Answer 1

Return this from your code if your image is a jpeg.

return "data:image/jpeg;base64," + Convert.ToBase64String(p.Trunk);

Read here for the Data URI scheme.