Grabbing a thumbnailPhoto from active directory. Would this be the correct way of encoding it to byte array. Because when I try to convert this byte array to an image, I get parameter not valid error. So I believe it is the way it is being encoded. Note, I am retrieving byte information, but wondering if it is correct information.
foreach (SearchResult iResult in searchresult)
{
ADUser userAttributes = new ADUser("", "", "", "", "", "", "", null);
foreach (string PropertyName in iResult.Properties.PropertyNames)
{
foreach (Object key in iResult.GetDirectoryEntry().Properties[PropertyName])
{
try
{
switch (PropertyName.ToUpper())
{
case "DISPLAYNAME":
DisplayName = key.ToString();
userAttributes.Name = DisplayName;
break;
case "SAMACCOUNTNAME":
SAMAccountName = key.ToString();
userAttributes.DomainUserName = SAMAccountName;
break;
case "MAIL":
Mail = key.ToString();
userAttributes.EmailAddress = Mail;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
Description = key.ToString();
userAttributes.JobDescription = Description;
break;
case "TELEPHONENUMBER":
TelephoneNumber = key.ToString();
userAttributes.TelephoneNumber = TelephoneNumber;
break;
case "FAX":
Fax = key.ToString();
userAttributes.FaxNumber = Fax;
break;
case "DEPARTMENT":
Department = key.ToString();
userAttributes.Department = Department;
break;
case "THUMBNAILPHOTO":
BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
bf.Serialize(ms, key);
ThumbnailPhoto = ms.ToArray();
userAttributes.ThumbnailPhoto = ThumbnailPhoto;
break;
}
}
catch
{
}
}
}
Users.Add(userAttributes);
}
return View(Users);
}
return View();
}
In my View:
<td>
@if (item.ThumbnailPhoto != null)
{
Image thumbnail;
byte[] byteArray = item.ThumbnailPhoto;
using (MemoryStream s = new MemoryStream(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length))
{
s.Write(byteArray, 0, item.ThumbnailPhoto.Length);
s.Position=0;
thumbnail = Image.FromStream(s,true);
}
}
</td>
If it is wrong, how would I encode this properly.
