What is the fastest way to return the binary of a file?

[klj_mcsd@hotmail.com]

Currently this is what I'm doing and it takes about 30 - 60 seconds for
88 kb file to show in my web browser from my web service. I think that
is too long when you webservive is on a network server. Can someone
look at this please. Thanks

bImage = New Bitmap("c:\images\" & arrImages(ImageNo).ToString)
'Save as PNG file
bImage.Save(bFile, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
'Return Binary file
Return bFile.GetBuffer()



When I get is from the web service I just display it using

Response.ContentType = "image/png"
ms = New MemoryStream(x)
Response.OutputStream.Write(x, 0, Convert.ToInt32
(ms.Length))

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

[email]klj_mcsd@hotmail.com[/email] wrote in news:1121725105.064218.29520@o13g2000cwo.googlegro ups.com:

> Currently this is what I'm doing and it takes about 30 - 60 seconds for
> 88 kb file to show in my web browser from my web service. I think that
> is too long when you webservive is on a network server. Can someone
> look at this please. Thanks

Web services by default encode binary data as base 64, this expands its size. You need to look at
DIME, etc to change the transport to binary.


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