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BitmapMetadata.Format Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Windows.Media.Imaging
Assembly:
PresentationCore.dll

Gets a value that identifies the format of the image.

C# 
public string Format { [System.Security.SecurityCritical] get; }
C# 
public string Format { get; }

Property Value

String

The format of the bitmap image.

Attributes
SecurityCriticalAttribute

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to read various properties of the BitmapMetadata object and send their values to a MessageBox as strings.

C# 
FileStream stream4 = new FileStream("image3.tif", FileMode.Create);
BitmapMetadata myBitmapMetadata2 = new BitmapMetadata("tiff");
TiffBitmapEncoder encoder4 = new TiffBitmapEncoder();
MessageBox.Show(myBitmapMetadata2.IsFixedSize.ToString());
MessageBox.Show(myBitmapMetadata2.IsReadOnly.ToString());
MessageBox.Show(myBitmapMetadata2.Format.ToString());
MessageBox.Show(myBitmapMetadata2.Location.ToString());
encoder4.Frames = decoder2.Frames;
encoder4.Save(stream4);
stream4.Close();

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
Windows Desktop 3.0, 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10