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Using Image control in WPF to display System.Drawing.Bitmap

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c#

wpf

According to http://khason.net/blog/how-to-use-systemdrawingbitmap-hbitmap-in-wpf/

   [DllImport("gdi32")]
   static extern int DeleteObject(IntPtr o);

   public static BitmapSource loadBitmap(System.Drawing.Bitmap source)
   {
       IntPtr ip = source.GetHbitmap();
       BitmapSource bs = null;
       try
       {
           bs = System.Windows.Interop.Imaging.CreateBitmapSourceFromHBitmap(ip, 
              IntPtr.Zero, Int32Rect.Empty, 
              System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSizeOptions.FromEmptyOptions());
       }
       finally
       {
           DeleteObject(ip);
       }

       return bs;
   }

It gets System.Drawing.Bitmap (from WindowsBased) and converts it into BitmapSource, which can be actually used as image source for your Image control in WPF.

image1.Source = YourUtilClass.loadBitmap(SomeBitmap);

You can use the Source property of the image. Try this code...

ImageSource imageSource = new BitmapImage(new Uri("C:\\FileName.gif"));

image1.Source = imageSource;

It's easy for disk file, but harder for Bitmap in memory.

System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp;
Image image;
...
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
bmp.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
ms.Position = 0;
BitmapImage bi = new BitmapImage();
bi.BeginInit();
bi.StreamSource = ms;
bi.EndInit();

image.Source = bi;

Stealed here


I wrote a program with wpf and used Database for showing images and this is my code:

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=HITMAN-PC\MYSQL;
                                      Initial Catalog=Payam;
                                      Integrated Security=True");

SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("select * from news", con);

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
da.Fill(dt);

string adress = dt.Rows[i]["ImgLink"].ToString();
ImageSource imgsr = new BitmapImage(new Uri(adress));
PnlImg.Source = imgsr;