Picture's binary data

[jovton]

I need to convert a picture box's binary data to string.

Here is the scenario:

Of got a client and server computer, two winsockets. I want
to send a picture over the network to the client. So I need
to send the client winsocket a string representation of the
picture data.

At the client side I should obviously convert it back again.

Help?

I looked at some API called: GetDIBits. Is that it? Maybe
not? What APIs should be used? Maybe APIs isn't neccesary
at all.

Any ideas?

jvton@yahoo.com

Thanx!

[kedaman]

Yep, i think GetDIBits is what you need, it should return an array containg the bitmap by either its palette or without palette, if you have 24 bit colors. Then you can use Strconv to convert the array to a string :)