The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 5: FILESTREAM with ASP.NET and SilverlightResponse.BufferOutput = false;Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg";BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(Response.OutputStream);Listing 5-12:Accessing the OutputStream property of the Response object.Refer to Chapter 12, in the section entitled Best Practices for FILESTREAM Development,to learn about the potentially useful addition of a timestamp column to allow for cachingFILESTREAM data that is sent over the web.Running and testing the applicationWe have finished the code, so we can now verify that the application is working asexpected. In Visual Studio, set the web page that we created in this lab as the default page,and run the application.When the web page is open in the browser, add a parameter to the query string. Enter theitem number of a record that exists in the table. This will retrieve the image associatedwith the specified item, and the image will be displayed on your browser (Figure 5-21).Figure 5-21:Running the application.In the next lab we will see how to use this page as the URL source for item thumbnailimages we display on a web page.193