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C#

Manpreet Wasan
Manpreet Wasan
2,739 Points
Posted by Manpreet Wasan
Manpreet Wasan
2,739 Points

A generic error occurred in GDI+ while converting base64string to an image using webApi2

While converting base64string to an image using webAp12 on hosting server it showing exceptionMessage=A generic error occurred in GDI+.

My code for Base64 image upload is

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(DriverImage))) { using (Bitmap bm2 = new Bitmap(ms)) { bm2.Save(HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/images/"+ ".jpg")); filename = Path.GetFileName(1001+ ".jpg"); } }

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,210 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,210 Points

Are your strings incomplete?

There's not enough code here for a complete analysis, but one thing that jumps out at me are the places where you are combining literals to produce strings. Unless something is missing, wouldn't you just write them as a single string?

For example: where you have this: "~/images/"+ ".jpg", why not just write this: "~/images/.jpg"? But even joined together, that really does look like a filename component may be missing. It looks equally peculiar where you have: 1001 + ".jpg".