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Tom Kerkhove
Tom Kerkhove

Reputation: 2191

Image vs BitmapImage vs Bitmap

I was wondering what the difference is between Image, Bitmap and BitmapImage in WPF & C#.

Can someone help me out?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 21100

Answers (2)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 424

WinForms/GDI+ uses the abstract class System.Drawing.Image and its implementation Bitmap.

WPF uses the abstract class System.Windows.Media.ImageSource (and BitmapSource) and its implementation BitmapImage.

WPF also has a control named Image, which is a FrameworkElement that contains and displays an ImageSource.

It took me a while to untangle that mess of terminology...

Upvotes: 13

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038730

Image is a base abstract class representing images in GDI+. Bitmap is a concrete implementation of this base class.

BitmapImage is a way to represent an image in a vector based GUI engine like WPF and Silverlight. Contrary to a Bitmap, it is not based on GDI+. It is based on the Windows Imaging Component.

There are ways to load a BitmapImage from a Bitmap.

Upvotes: 18

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