How to convert image to byte array

Can anybody suggest how I can convert an image to a byte array and vice versa?

I'm developing a WPF application and using a stream reader.

Solution 1:

Sample code to change an image into a byte array

public byte[] ImageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image imageIn)
{
   using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
   {
      imageIn.Save(ms,imageIn.RawFormat);
      return  ms.ToArray();
   }
}

C# Image to Byte Array and Byte Array to Image Converter Class

Solution 2:

For Converting an Image object to byte[] you can do as follows:

public static byte[] converterDemo(Image x)
{
    ImageConverter _imageConverter = new ImageConverter();
    byte[] xByte = (byte[])_imageConverter.ConvertTo(x, typeof(byte[]));
    return xByte;
}

Solution 3:

Another way to get Byte array from image path is

byte[] imgdata = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(path));