save - Easiest way of saving wpf Image control to a file

Question

I have a Image control inside my wpf application, which has a large image inside of it, but the control itself is only 60x150, this means it only shows a certain portion of this image. What is the easiest way of saving the visible portion to a file?

Thank you for your help.

[EDIT] I ended up using code found here (which I've not been able to locate before posting here)...

Grid r = new Grid();
        r.Background = new ImageBrush(image2.Source);


    System.Windows.Size sz = new System.Windows.Size(image2.Source.Width, image2.Source.Height);
    r.Measure(sz);
    r.Arrange(new Rect(sz));

    RenderTargetBitmap rtb = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)image2.Source.Width, (int)image2.Source.Height, 96d, 96d, PixelFormats.Default);
    rtb.Render(r);

    BmpBitmapEncoder encoder = new BmpBitmapEncoder();
    encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(rtb));

    FileStream fs = File.Open(@"C:lol.png", FileMode.Create);
    encoder.Save(fs);
    fs.Close();

Answer 1

You could use RenderTargetBitmap class and BitmapEncoder.

Define these methods:

void SaveToBmp(FrameworkElement visual, string fileName)
{
    var encoder = new BmpBitmapEncoder();
    SaveUsingEncoder(visual, fileName, encoder);
}

void SaveToPng(FrameworkElement visual, string fileName)
{
    var encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
    SaveUsingEncoder(visual, fileName, encoder);
}

// and so on for other encoders (if you want)


void SaveUsingEncoder(FrameworkElement visual, string fileName, BitmapEncoder encoder)
{
    RenderTargetBitmap bitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)visual.ActualWidth, (int)visual.ActualHeight, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
    bitmap.Render(visual);
    BitmapFrame frame = BitmapFrame.Create(bitmap);
    encoder.Frames.Add(frame);

    using (var stream = File.Create(fileName))
    {
        encoder.Save(stream);
    }
}

If you have your Image control inside a container like this:

<Grid x:Name="MyGrid">
    <Image Name="MyImage" Stretch="None"></Image>
</Grid>

You just need to do so:

SaveToPng(MyGrid, "image.png");

Otherwise you can simply pass the dimensions you want when you use RenderTargetBitmap:

SaveToPng(MyImage, "image.png");

...

RenderTargetBitmap bitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap(YourWidth, YourHeight, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);