A useful Image Converter for the library

Some user ask for a way to read/write images with the library.

So I create this converter that you can copy and paste in your code:

public sealed class ImageConverter: ConverterBase
{
public override object StringToField(string from)
{
Byte[] bitmapData;
bitmapData = Convert.FromBase64String(from);
System.IO.MemoryStream streamBitmap = new System.IO.MemoryStream(bitmapData);
return Image.FromStream(streamBitmap);
}

public override string FieldToString(object from)
{
Image ima = (Image) from;
System.IO.MemoryStream ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
ima.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray());
}
}

Note: you can of course change the ImageFormat to whatever you want, I use PNG because is lost less and compress the resulting strings =)

To use this converter you need some code like:

[FieldConverter(typeof(ImageConverter))]
public Image MyImage;

Easy isn't ?

Happy Coding !!