CImage::Load() from memory without using CreateStreamOnHGlobal

Question

I am displaying a live view video from camera. Every frame I download into a byte array (pImageData) which I have to allocate.

Now, to display, I am using a CImage (MFC)

Answer 1

Thanks to Hans for pointing out SHCreateMemStream, which I did not know existed. The code is much cleaner, but still unsure whether SHCreateMemStream creates a copy internally (documentation is unclear)

[edit] As per Jonathan' comments, looks like it still has to make a copy internally. Dang ..

Final code

// pImageData is an array with bytes, size is the sizeOfThatArray

// Still not clear if this is making a copy internally
IStream* pMemStream = SHCreateMemStream(pImageData, size);

CComPtr<IStream> stream;

stream.Attach(pMemStream); // Need to Attach, otherwise ownership is not transferred and we leak memory

CImage image;
image.Load(stream); 

// .. display image

image.Destroy();

// No need for further cleanup, CComPtr does the job