How do you convert a byte array to a Bitmap instance (.NET)?

Question

I am working with cameras (in this case monochrome) in VB.NET. The API of the cameras is in C++ and the manufacturer provides wrappers. As is typical in these cases, the ima

Answer 1

Create a valid bitmap header, and preappend it to the byte array. You'll only need to manually create 56-128 bytes of data.

Second, create a stream from a byte array.

Next, create an image or bitmap class by using Image.FromStream()/Bitmap.FromStream()

I wouldn't imagine that there is any sort of raw imaging features in .Net. There is so much needed information for an image, it would be an extremely lengthy parameter list for a method to accept raw bytes and create an imagine (is it a bitmap, jpeg, gif, png, etc, and all the additional data each of those requires to create a valid image) it wouldn't make sense.

Answer 2

Try this

var img = new Bitmap(new MemoryStream(yourByteArray));

Answer 3

Seems like all your cameras are of same type, so the images data. I don't know if this is possible in your case, but could you create a this "full bitmap" from any image and then just use header as a template (since it will be same for all images).