How to serve up image from type System.Drawing.Bitmap (<img> tag?)

Question

I am sending a bitmap to a View in ASP.NET MVC. I have a property in my ViewModel:

public Bitmap TemplateImage { get; set; }

In my View, I want to be able to render that Bitmap image but I can't figure out how to do it.

Answer 1

One solution would be to create a new action, like this:

public FileContentResult Show(int id)
{
    var category = northwind.AllCategories().Single(c => c.CategoryID == id);
    byte[] imageByte = category.Picture;
    string contentType = "image/jpeg";

    return File(imageByte, contentType);
}

and send an ID for the image instead and reference it like this:

<img src="<%: Url.Action("Show","Image",new { id = Model.Category.CategoryID  }) %>