VB.Net Picturebox "Parameter is not Valid" when get online images - vb.net

Question

Dim ShowImgWebClient = New WebClient
Dim ImageInBytes As Byte() = ShowImgWebClient.DownloadData("http://ex.domain.com/index.php?checksum=" & lblCheckSum.Text.ToString())
Dim ImageStream As New MemoryStream(ImageInBytes)
Dim CaptchaImg As Image = New Bitmap(ImageStream)
ptbCaptcha.Image = CaptchaImg
I'm use this code for get online captcha to my picturebox name ptbCaptcha.
but when request this image my program show error Parameter is not Valid.
Why this ? and How to make it work ?

Answer 1

This is not the proper way to use MemoryStream.
Here is the example taken from microsoft website :
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Module MemStream
Sub Main()
Dim count As Integer
Dim byteArray As Byte()
Dim charArray As Char()
Dim uniEncoding As New UnicodeEncoding()
' Create the data to write to the stream.
Dim firstString As Byte() = _
uniEncoding.GetBytes("Invalid file path characters are: ")
Dim secondString As Byte() = _
uniEncoding.GetBytes(Path.GetInvalidPathChars())
Dim memStream As New MemoryStream(100)
Try
' Write the first string to the stream.
memStream.Write(firstString, 0 , firstString.Length)
' Write the second string to the stream, byte by byte.
count = 0
While(count < secondString.Length)
memStream.WriteByte(secondString(count))
count += 1
End While
' Write the stream properties to the console.
Console.WriteLine( _
"Capacity = {0}, Length = {1}, Position = {2}", _
memStream.Capacity.ToString(), _
memStream.Length.ToString(), _
memStream.Position.ToString())
' Set the stream position to the beginning of the stream.
memStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin)
' Read the first 20 bytes from the stream.
byteArray = _
New Byte(CType(memStream.Length, Integer)){}
count = memStream.Read(byteArray, 0, 20)
' Read the remaining Bytes, Byte by Byte.
While(count < memStream.Length)
byteArray(count) = _
Convert.ToByte(memStream.ReadByte())
count += 1
End While
' Decode the Byte array into a Char array
' and write it to the console.
charArray = _
New Char(uniEncoding.GetCharCount( _
byteArray, 0, count)){}
uniEncoding.GetDecoder().GetChars( _
byteArray, 0, count, charArray, 0)
Console.WriteLine(charArray)
Finally
memStream.Close()
End Try
End Sub
End Module
See MemoryStream for more information.