Sizing and working with ICO files in WPF/C#

Question

In an application I'm working on there are Images (part of System.Windows.Media.Imaging) being created dynamically in the code-behind of a XAML page and getting added to the window. I'm using ICO files, which contain various sizes and bit depths. The size I want is 96x96 @ 32 bit. The code automatically selects the largest size (256x256 @ 32 bit).

I'm setting the Image.Source property as follows:

image.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/Resources/Images/Application.ico"));

Now, by searching around I've found the Icon (part of System.Drawing) which will allow me to set a string path and size, but this is a part of an entirely different library.

new Icon("pack://application:,,,/Resources/Images/Inquiry.ico",96,96);

Any idea how I can make my Image's size property a bit more manageable? Thank you!

EDIT: Convert System.Drawing.Icon to System.Media.ImageSource
This post gets the image to appear smaller, however, it doesn't matter if I set the Icon to 96x96 or 128x128, it doesn't actually change the displayed image's size. I'm assuming it's going to some default value that is different that the System.Windows.Media.Imaging default.

EDIT to the EDIT: Weird keeps getting weirder. When I display through the original method, it's definitely displaying the image as 256x256. However, when I use the conversion method described in the link, while the sizes change, they are significantly scaled down (i.e. 256x256 looks closer to 48x48).

Answer 1

Try the markup extension that is posted in this answer to another SO question. Note the use of BitmapDecoder to get the required frame from the Ico file.