VB.NET: Retrive an image (blob) from MySQL DB

Question

I've a field called "Foto" in MySQL DB. This field is a blob. When I used SQL Server, the following code worked:

    Dim conn As New MySqlConnection
    conn.ConnectionString = ConnectionString
    Dim cmd As New MySqlCommand
    cmd.Connection = conn
    conn.Open()
    cmd.CommandText = "SELECT Foto FROM MyTable WHERE ID = '" & IDtxt.ToString & "'"
    Dim reader As MySqlDataReader

        reader = cmd.ExecuteReader
        While reader.Read
            If (IsDBNull(reader("Foto"))) Then
                frmCartaIdentitaView.pctImage.Image = Nothing
            Else
                Dim byteImage() As Byte = reader("Foto")
                Dim frmImageView stmFoto As New System.IO.MemoryStream(byteImage)
                frmImageView.pctImage.Image = Image.FromStream(stmFoto)
                frmImageView.pctImage.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.Zoom
                frmImageView.Show()
            End If
        End While

But now that I'm using mysql, is produced the following error: invalid parameter.

Answer 1

If your ID field is an integer, see if this gets you past that error. Instead of this:

cmd.CommandText = "SELECT Foto FROM MyTable WHERE ID = '" & IDtxt.ToString & "'"

Try this:

cmd.CommandText = "SELECT Foto FROM MyTable WHERE ID = " & ctype(int32,IDtxt).ToString