Common Problems with rendering Bitmaps into ASP.NET OutputStream
Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog,
on 20 Oct 2006 |
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Raise your hand if youve loaded an image from a Resource (or a BLOB database field):
Bitmap bm2 = this.GetGlobalResourceObject("Resources", "_BitMap") as Bitmap;
Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
bm2.Save(Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
Response.End();
and finding out that you cant save the image! You get a not so happy error:
A generic error occurred in GDI+.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the...