Retrieve Images from SQL db: Code Problem.

Hi,
I want to get an image from a sql server database and display it with an asp:image control. I use C# in MS Visual Studio .Net 2005 and Sql server 2005.
All I've done is:

// and Page Display_image.aspx.cs
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{

SqlConnection Con = new SqlConnection(
"server=localhost;" +
"database=;" +
"uid=;" +
"password=;");

System.String SqlCmd = "SELECT img_data FROM Image WHERE business_id = 2";

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand SqlCmdObj = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(SqlCmd, Con);

Con.Open();

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader SqlReader = SqlCmdObj.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection);

SqlReader.Read();

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";

// I write this:
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.BinaryWrite((byte[])SqlReader["img_data"]);

// Or this:
//System.Drawing.Image _image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(new System.IO.MemoryStream((byte[])SqlReader["img_data"]));

//System.Drawing.Image _newimage = _image.GetThumbnailImage(100, 100, null, new System.IntPtr());

//_newimage.Save(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);

Con.Close();

}
catch (System.Exception Ex)
{

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Trace.Write(Ex.Message.ToString());
}
}

Both work the same way. I mean the image is displayed well but when I view code of the web page I see this:

...
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...

TOO MUCH characters before the html tag. And any code of the master page used for this page does not work as well!

Can anyone help me with this? I've tried for 2 days but I still fail.

Thanks.

This should help:

Dim

drAs SqlDataReader

dr = cmd.ExecuteReader

dr.Read()

Response.Clear()

Response.AddHeader(

"Content-type", dr("MimeType"))

Response.AddHeader(

"Content-Disposition","inline; filename=""" & dr("Filename") &"""")Dim buffer()AsByte = dr("Data")Dim blenAsInteger =CType(dr("Data"),Byte()).Length

Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, blen)

Response.End()

|||Hello Motley,

I've tried your comment, but it stays the same. The image is displayed, but plenty of charaters in the page source still appears.

I guess it's because of the 'response.outputstream.write()' command, so all the image's byte data has been writen to the page's code.

Can you find any way to replace 'outputstream.write()' or some changes to stop those disgusting characters?

Thank you for your help,
maivangho.