Return image url as result of web api 2 query

Question

EDIT: I've update with a controller to get stream resources, but some how it still doesn't work

public class ResourcesController : Controller
{
    public string Directory = @"D:\Desktop\MusicDatabase\Image\";

    [HttpGet]
    [Route("Image/{type}/{id}")]
    public HttpResponseMessage Image(string type, string id)
    {
        HttpResponseMessage httpResponseMessage = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
        var url = Path.Combine(Directory, type, id + ".jpg");
        byte[] fileData = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(url);
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(fileData);
        httpResponseMessage.Content = new StreamContent(ms);
        httpResponseMessage.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("image/jpg");
        return httpResponseMessage;
    }     
}

It return a string, not the resoure file

When I debug, "url" variable is

"D:\\Desktop\\MusicDatabase\\Image\\song\\2.jpg"

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old:

I have 2 project: 1 web api2 for the server, 1 WP8 app for the client.

the server contains db where I have link to external file resources

e.x a Song table with IMAGE column where I stored this picture in my Desktop

public partial class Song
{    
    public int Id { get; set; }        
    public string NAME { get; set; }

    private string _IMAGE;
    public string IMAGE 
    { 
        get
        {
            return Helper.Helper.ConcatDirectory(_IMAGE);
        }
        set
        {
            _IMAGE = value;
        }
    }

In my DB, I stored "IMAGE" column only by its index (like "Song\1.jpg"), then when I have some queries to sever, I return full URL by this

public class Helper
{
    public static string Directory = "D:\\Desktop\\MusicDatabase\\";
    public static string ConcatDirectory(string input)
    {
        return string.Concat(Directory, input);
    }
}

When I tried a query in web browser , this URL will return file stored in my PC

But my WP8 app can't show this image (debug with emulator). While I don't want to store this resource in my project , so is there anyway to return these images here ? (Any diffirent file type later, like song, video ...)

Answer 1

Please replace

httpResponseMessage.Content = new StreamContent(ms);

with

httpResponseMessage.Content = new ByteArrayContent(ms);

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EDIT:

I really think you should try to understand the following advise from other fellow SO users:

1) Handling static images in ASP.NET WebAPI: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12559507/2310818.