Encountered the following exception which was caused by converting a byte[] which originated from a BMP to an Image.
public static Image ToImage(this byte[] value)
{
Image returnImage;
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(value))
{
returnImage = Image.FromStream(ms);
}
return returnImage;
}
System.ArgumentException was unhandled by user code
HResult=-2147024809
Message=Parameter is not valid.
Source=System.Drawing
StackTrace:
at System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(Stream stream, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement, Boolean validateImageData)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(Stream stream)
I will try to solve this in the near future. It works though with all other image formats.
I described the descriptor patteren earlier, this time I want to elaborate a bit showing the advantage of extending it and using it in combination with an MVC application. I created two classes ApplicationAction and Account Action where AccountAction extends ApplicationAction.
Here is the implementation of the ApplicationAction
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace Divelicious.Website.Code.Descriptor
{
public class ApplicationAction
{
private string _description = String.Empty;
private static readonly IDictionary dict = new Dictionary<string, ApplicationAction>();
protected ApplicationAction(string description)
{
_description = description;
dict.Add(description, this);
}
public override string ToString()
{
return _description;
}
public static ApplicationAction Parse(string description)
{
if (dict.Contains(description))
{
return dict[description] as ApplicationAction;
}
else
{
throw new NotImplementedException("This description is currently not supported.");
}
}
public static bool TryParse(string description, out ApplicationAction gender)
{
try
{
gender = Parse(description);
return true;
}
catch (NotImplementedException)
{
gender = null;
return false;
}
}
public static IEnumerable GetMembers()
{
return dict.Values.Cast().ToList();
}
}
}
Here is the AccountAction
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace Divelicious.Website.Code.Descriptor
{
public class AccountAction : ApplicationAction
{
private AccountAction(string description)
: base(description)
{
}
// Account
public static readonly AccountAction Login = new AccountAction("Login");
public static readonly AccountAction LogOff = new AccountAction("LogOff");
public static readonly AccountAction Register = new AccountAction("Register");
public static readonly AccountAction Disassociate = new AccountAction("Disassociate");
public static readonly AccountAction Manage = new AccountAction("Manage");
public static readonly AccountAction ExternalLogin = new AccountAction("ExternalLogin");
public static readonly AccountAction ExternalLoginCallback = new AccountAction("ExternalLoginCallback");
public static readonly AccountAction ExternalLoginConfirmation = new AccountAction("ExternalLoginConfirmation");
public static readonly AccountAction ExternalLoginFailure = new AccountAction("ExternalLoginFailure");
public static readonly AccountAction ExternalLoginsList = new AccountAction("ExternalLoginsList");
public static readonly AccountAction RemoveExternalLogins = new AccountAction("RemoveExternalLogins");
}
}
And when you want to use it.
<a href="@Url.Action(@AccountAction.Login.ToString(), "Account", new { Area="" })">Login</a>
A very nice feature which is new in Visual Studio 2013 is the code completion / intellisense for MVC pages. It's a bit faded in the example, but you can see the bootstrap pull-left and pull-right.
Started this new blog, not sure if the old content will be migrated. Aim is to collect anything related to the .Net framework and share knowledge.