Network Programming in .NET

I was looking for some high performance code to convert a bitmap into a 2D byte array, this is what I came up with.

 

first I have a class called pixel.

{

  public byte red;

  public byte green;

  public byte blue;

}

 

then I read it using some Unsafe code thus:

public pixel[,] BitmapToArray(Bitmap b)

{

pixel[,] bmpData=new pixel[b.Width,b.Height];

// GDI+ still lies to us – the return format is BGR, NOT RGB.

BitmapData bmData = b.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, b.Width, b.Height), ImageLockMode.ReadWrite, PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb);

int stride = bmData.Stride;

System.IntPtr Scan0 = bmData.Scan0;

unsafe

{

byte * p = (byte *)(void *)Scan0;

int nOffset = stride – b.Width*3;

int nWidth = b.Width * 3;

for(int y=0;y<b.Height;++y)

{

for(int x=0; x < nWidth; ++x )

{

switch(x%3)

{

case 0:

bmpData[x/3,y] =

new pixel();

bmpData[x/3,y].blue = (

byte)(p[0]);

break;

case 1:

bmpData[x/3,y].green = (

byte)(p[0]);

break;

case 2:

bmpData[x/3,y].red = (byte)(p[0]);

break;

}

++p;

}

p += nOffset;

}

}

b.UnlockBits(bmData);

return bmpData;

}