WPF Image to byte[]

Real Solution... if want to save jpg images from an System.Windows.Control.Image when your database mapped field on your ORM is Byte[] / byte[] / Bynary

public byte[] getJPGFromImageControl(BitmapImage imageC)
{
       MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();              
        JpegBitmapEncoder encoder = new JpegBitmapEncoder();
        encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(imageC));
        encoder.Save(memStream);
        return memStream.ToArray();
}

call as :

getJPGFromImageControl(firmaUno.Source as BitmapImage)

Hopes helps :)

I don't know how your Image is declared, but suppose we have this XAML declaration:

<Image x:Name="img">
    <Image.Source>
        <BitmapImage UriSource="test.png" />
    </Image.Source>
</Image>

Then you can convert the contents of test.png to a byte-array like this:

var bmp = img.Source as BitmapImage;

int height = bmp.PixelHeight;
int width  = bmp.PixelWidth;
int stride = width * ((bmp.Format.BitsPerPixel + 7) / 8);

byte[] bits = new byte[height * stride];
bmp.CopyPixels(bits, stride, 0);

public byte[] BufferFromImage(BitmapImage imageSource)
{        
    Stream stream = imageSource.StreamSource;
    byte[] buffer = null;

    if (stream != null && stream.Length > 0)
    {
        using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(stream))
        {
            buffer = br.ReadBytes((Int32)stream.Length);
        }
    }

    return buffer;
}

would be another way, but difference is this have less bytes[x] than first solution

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void btnBrowse_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        var of = new OpenFileDialog();
        of.Filter = "Image files (*.png;*.jpeg)|*.png;*.jpeg|All files (*.*)|*.*";
        var res = of.ShowDialog();
        if (res.HasValue)
        {
            imgPreview.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(of.FileName));

            var t = Utils.ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(imgPreview.Source as BitmapSource);
            var d = Utils.ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(new BitmapImage(new Uri(of.FileName)));
            var s = Utils.ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(imgPreview.Source);
            var enc = Utils.ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(new PngBitmapEncoder(), imgPreview.Source);
            //imgPreview2.Source = Utils.ConvertByteArrayToBitmapImage(enc);
            imgPreview2.Source = Utils.ConvertByteArrayToBitmapImage2(enc);
            //var i = 0;


        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Select a currect file...");

        }
    }

}

/util.cs/

public class Utils
{
    public static byte[] ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(BitmapEncoder encoder, ImageSource imageSource)
    {
        byte[] bytes = null;
        var bitmapSource = imageSource as BitmapSource;

        if (bitmapSource != null)
        {
            encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(bitmapSource));

            using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
            {
                encoder.Save(stream);
                bytes = stream.ToArray();
            }
        }

        return bytes;
    }

    public static byte[] ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(BitmapSource image)
    {
        byte[] data;
        BitmapEncoder encoder = new JpegBitmapEncoder();
        encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(image));
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            encoder.Save(ms);
            data = ms.ToArray();
        }
        return data;
    }
    public static byte[] ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(ImageSource imageSource)
    {
        var image = imageSource as BitmapSource;
        byte[] data;
        BitmapEncoder encoder = new JpegBitmapEncoder();
        encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(image));
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            encoder.Save(ms);
            data = ms.ToArray();
        }
        return data;
    }
    public static byte[] ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(Uri uri)
    {
        var image = new BitmapImage(uri);
        byte[] data;
        BitmapEncoder encoder = new JpegBitmapEncoder();
        encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(image));
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            encoder.Save(ms);
            data = ms.ToArray();
        }
        return data;
    }
    public static byte[] ConvertBitmapSourceToByteArray(string filepath)
    {
        var image = new BitmapImage(new Uri(filepath));
        byte[] data;
        BitmapEncoder encoder = new JpegBitmapEncoder();
        encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(image));
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            encoder.Save(ms);
            data = ms.ToArray();
        }
        return data;
    }

    public static BitmapImage ConvertByteArrayToBitmapImage(Byte[] bytes)
    {
        var stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
        stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
        var image = new BitmapImage();
        image.BeginInit();
        image.StreamSource = stream;
        image.EndInit();
        return image;
    }
}