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Displaying Base64 image in a user control

I have a Base64 encoded image stored in a session variable "EmrLabel" and I am trying to display the label-image in an .ascx control on an .aspx page.

The code below is bombing out on the line "Response.BinaryWrite(jpgStream.ToArray());" with the error: OutputStream is not available when a custom TextWriter is used.

How do I correct this?
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;
using System.Xml;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;

namespace MB.UserControl
{
    public partial class EmrLabel : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string merchandiseReturnLabel = Session["EmrLabel"].ToString();

            byte[] label = Convert.FromBase64String(merchandiseReturnLabel);
            System.Drawing.Image imgTiff = default(System.Drawing.Image);
            MemoryStream tiffStream = new MemoryStream();
            MemoryStream jpgStream = new MemoryStream();
            tiffStream.Write(label, 0, label.Length);
            imgTiff = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(tiffStream);

            // Crop out crap.
            imgTiff = CropAndResizeImage(imgTiff);

            imgTiff.Save(jpgStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
            Response.Clear();
            Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";
            Response.BinaryWrite(jpgStream.ToArray());
            Response.End();
        }

        private Image CropAndResizeImage(Image imgTiff)
        {
            // Crop image
            Rectangle cropArea = new Rectangle();
            cropArea.Width = 1520;
            cropArea.Height = 1030;
            cropArea.X = 50;
            cropArea.Y = 50;
            Bitmap bmpImage = new Bitmap(imgTiff);
            Bitmap bmpCrop = bmpImage.Clone(cropArea, bmpImage.PixelFormat);

            return (Image)bmpCrop;
        }
    }
}

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When you output image data, that has to be data for the WHOLE URL, not just a control on the URL - when you manipulate the "Response" object, it is the whole page that gets cleared.

When you program at the level of an individual CONTROL, you shouldn't be clearing the whole page.  Just create an image with a specific URL, and then the Page_Load event for that entire page (URL) can do the same thing that you are currently trying to do for the Page_Load of a single control.
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jensfiederer - thanks for your help. I hope I'm understanding correctly.

The way I had originally designed this, I had a page "ShippingPackingSlip.aspx" and on that page, I had

Where the EmrLabel.aspx page had the code above that I was attempting to put into a user control.

Problem was, when I open EmrLabel.aspx that way, Session["EmrLabel"] is null. (Even though it's NOT null in the codebehind on ShippingPackingSlip.aspx.

I also tried passing it as a querystring -- like EmrLabel.aspx?label=[Base64 Value] (which I didn't want to do) but it's too long (apparently?) and doesn't work either.
The original design sounds like the right way.

You are right, passing a query string with the Base64 value is much too long....a string with just enough info to retrieve (or generate) the value would be better....

But I gather that is what you wanted to do with Session["EmrLabel"] (presumably the contents are the Base64 string as in your current code).....I really don't see why Session["EmrLabel"] should be null.  Where and how is Session["EmrLabel"] set to a value?

Session["EmrLabel"] is the Base64 string, yes.

The user goes to ShippingMaterials.aspx -- clicks the order for the page they want to generate labels for.
It is on THIS page that I'm generating the label (so I can easily catch errors before actually printing the label) So I generate the label and add it to the session ... Session.Add("EmrLabel", merchandiseReturnLabel);

On that page, I check
If (Session["EmrLabel"] != null)

Then I go ahead and display ShippingPackingSlip.aspx which includes the
 

When I debug, Session["EmrLabel"] is not null on ShippingMaterials.aspx, it is not null on ShippingPackingSlip.aspx, but it is null on EmrLabel.aspx
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