Pictures over Web Services - Client side

gistfile1.cs

private void LoadImage() { 
  // Create web service 
  WebServiceSoapClient service = new WebServiceSoapClient(); 
  // Fetch encoded image using the web service method 
  string encodedImage = service.GetPicture(); 
  // turn the Base64 string back into bytes 
  byte[] buffer = Convert.FromBase64String(encodedImage); 
  // create a stream from the data 
  MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(buffer, false); 
  // recreate Image object, and display it in pictureBox1 
  Image img = Image.FromStream(stream); 
  pictureBox1.Image = img; 
}