public static BitmapDownloadResult BeginBitmapFromWeb(string url)
{
BitmapDownloadResult result = new BitmapDownloadResult();
try
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "GET";
request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.1";
request.BeginGetResponse((asyncRes) =>
{
Bitmap bitmap = null;
try
{
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.EndGetResponse(asyncRes) as HttpWebResponse)
{
bitmap = new Bitmap(response.GetResponseStream());
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Logger.LogError("Error downloading thumb from {0} - {1}", url, ex.Message);
}
finally
{
result.Complete(bitmap);
}
}, null);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Logger.LogError("Error downloading thumb from {0} - {1}", url, ex.Message);
return(null);
}
return(result);
}
