c# - Image to byte array from a url

Question

I have a hyperlink which has a image.

I need to read/load the image from that hyperlink and assign it to a byte array (byte[]) in C#.

Thanks.

Answer 1

WebClient.DownloadData is the easiest way.

var webClient = new WebClient();
byte[] imageBytes = webClient.DownloadData("http://www.google.com/images/logos/ps_logo2.png");

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Third party edit: Please note that WebClient is disposable, so you should use using:

string someUrl = "http://www.google.com/images/logos/ps_logo2.png"; 
using (var webClient = new WebClient()) { 
    byte[] imageBytes = webClient.DownloadData(someUrl);
}