Image (BITMAP) for String

Question

I have never worked with anything like this and would like to insert an image into a database and for what I saw the best way is to transform an image into a string, I have searched and found some ways but I was blocked. And the only way I have to store images is in a folder outside the database, but then as I intend to do a gallery has no way to filter the images through Cartype.

public ActionResult Insert(Cars cars, HttpPostedFileBase photo)
    {
        string directory = @"~\Images";


        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {

            int recordsCreated = CreateCar(
                         cars.Brand,
                         cars.Model,
                         cars.CarType,
                         cars.PlateDate,
                         cars.Image);
        }
        if (photo != null && photo.ContentLength > 0)
        {

            var fileName = Path.GetFileName(photo.FileName);
            photo.SaveAs(Path.Combine(directory, fileName));
            return RedirectToAction("../Rent/Gallery");
        }
        return View();


    }

Answer 1

You can try converting to a Base64 string, in this case try this :

using (Image image = Image.FromFile(Path))
{
    using (MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream())
    {
        image.Save(m, image.RawFormat);
        byte[] imageBytes = m.ToArray();

        // Convert byte[] to Base64 String
        string base64String = Convert.ToBase64String(imageBytes);
        return base64String;
    }
}