http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4308777/wpf-bitmapimage-serialization-deserialization[
^] see comments for changes, to make. As far as I see, this solution should do for you. This is very common, but I use something like this
public string ImageToBase64(Image image,
System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat format)
{
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
image.Save(ms, format);
byte[] imageBytes = ms.ToArray();
string base64String = Convert.ToBase64String(imageBytes);
return base64String;
}
}
public Image Base64ToImage(string base64String)
{
byte[] imageBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(base64String);
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(imageBytes, 0,
imageBytes.Length);
ms.Write(imageBytes, 0, imageBytes.Length);
Image image = Image.FromStream(ms, true);
return image;
}