Create thumbnails on the fly

[Rick Spiewak]

Here's code I use to do the task in a Windows form, but you should be able
to adapt it:



Dim wReq As System.Net.HttpWebRequest

wReq = WebRequest.Create(sURL)

Dim wResp As WebResponse = wReq.GetResponse

picImage.Image = New Bitmap(wResp.GetResponseStream)

"David W. Simmonds" <david@simmonds.ca> wrote in message
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> I would like to be able to create thumbnails on the fly and display them

in

> a datalist. The original images would be sourced from a website, not from

a

> virtual path on the server. ie. [url]http://www.foo.bar/photos/image.jpg[/url]

instead

> of /photos/image.jpg. I have seen code to do the latter. Any ideas as to

how

> to create a Bitmap or Image object based on a url?
>
>

[David W. Simmonds]

What type of object is picImage? I need to have about 20 thumbnails
presented. I was going to use a DataList to do such. I would put an
ImageButton into the DataList, but it only supports an ImageUrl method.
There is no way of giving it an Image object.

"Rick Spiewak" <rickspiewak@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Here's code I use to do the task in a Windows form, but you should be able
> to adapt it:
>
>
>
> Dim wReq As System.Net.HttpWebRequest
>
> wReq = WebRequest.Create(sURL)
>
> Dim wResp As WebResponse = wReq.GetResponse
>
> picImage.Image = New Bitmap(wResp.GetResponseStream)
>
> "David W. Simmonds" <david@simmonds.ca> wrote in message
> news:8DXTa.504871$3C2.13477317@news3.calgary.shaw. ca...
>

> > I would like to be able to create thumbnails on the fly and display them

> in

> > a datalist. The original images would be sourced from a website, not

from

> a

> > virtual path on the server. ie. [url]http://www.foo.bar/photos/image.jpg[/url]

> instead

> > of /photos/image.jpg. I have seen code to do the latter. Any ideas as to

> how

> > to create a Bitmap or Image object based on a url?
> >
> >

>
>