'bmpBytes.Length' ?
On Nov 27, 9:39 pm, Mirosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello I am a moderately exprienced vb.net programmer and l'm making a > program to capture a screenshot and turn it into a byte array suitable > for sending via a socket connection probably UDP for speed reasons. I > cannot do this with a save to file method as it would leave hundreds > of images behind after the program stopped running (you cannot access > any file that has been saved to using vb.net while the program is > still running which includes deleting or overwriting it!) so I need to > store the image temporarily in program. This is the method i'm using > to convert the image to bytes but I now need to know how big the image > i'm sending is!! > > Private Function BmpToBytes_MemStream(ByVal bmp As Bitmap) As Byte() > Dim ms As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream() > ' Save to memory using the Jpeg format > > bmp.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg) > Dim bmpBytes() As Byte = ms.GetBuffer() > bmp.Dispose() > ms.Close() > Return bmpBytes > End Function > > I'm using GDI+ for screen capture, clipboard has a tendency to error. > I will probably need to capture about 100 screenshots a minute!
