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How to make raw bitmap data usable

Hello, I have some camera hardware that -- using the provided sample code -- I am able to use their functions to pull raw data out of (it says that it is in RGB24 format) and there is some other code that seems to create a corresponding BITMAPINFOHEADER structure.  But I don't know how to turn this into something I can use.  To clarify, below is the code.



    Structure LUCAM_FRAME_FORMAT
        Dim xOffset As Integer
        Dim yOffset As Integer
        Dim width As Integer
        Dim height As Integer
        Dim pixelFormat As Integer
        Dim subSampleX As Short
        Dim flagsX As Short
        Dim subSampleY As Short
        Dim flagsY As Short
    End Structure

 Public FrameFormat As LUCAM_FRAME_FORMAT

Public BitmapFrame() As Byte
...

LucamGetFormat(hCamera, myFrameFormat, FrameRate)

        ret = LucamConvertFrameToRgb24(hCamera, BitmapFrame, MyFrame, FrameFormat.width, FrameFormat.height, FrameFormat.pixelFormat, Conversion)

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which apparently returns the image data in the BitmapFrame array, and then it creates a standard BITMAPINFOHEADER structure with the following

  Dim bmpInfo As BITMAPINFOHEADER

        ' Display captured frame
        bmpInfo.biBitCount = 24
        bmpInfo.biClrImportant = 0
        bmpInfo.biClrUsed = 0
        bmpInfo.biCompression = 0 ' BI_RGB
        bmpInfo.biHeight = FrameFormat.height
        bmpInfo.biPlanes = 1
        bmpInfo.biSize = 40 ' SizeOf(BITMAPINFOHEADER)
        bmpInfo.biSizeImage = FrameFormat.width * FrameFormat.height * 3
        bmpInfo.biWidth = FrameFormat.width
        bmpInfo.biXPelsPerMeter = 0
        bmpInfo.biYPelsPerMeter = 0

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and then it does some other things with this data (feeds it into its own functions) that are not useful to me.  what I need to do is stop it here, and turn the data into my own .NET System.Drawing.Bitmap object so that I can do whatever I want with it.

But so far I have not been able to string together the code to convert the raw byte array, that apparently matches up with this BITMAPINFOHEADER, into my own .NET bitmap.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  

Thanks VERY much in advance.


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That gave me enough ammunition to post a question back to the vendor, thanks.