Release handle on file. ImageSource from BitmapImage

Question

How can I release the handle on this file?

img is of type System.Windows.Controls.Image

private void Load()
{
    ImageSource imageSrc = new BitmapIm         


        

Answer 1

Found the answer on MSDN Forum.

Bitmap stream is not closed unless caching option is set as BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad. So you need something like this:

public static ImageSource BitmapFromUri(Uri source)
{
    var bitmap = new BitmapImage();
    bitmap.BeginInit();
    bitmap.UriSource = source;
    bitmap.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
    bitmap.EndInit();
    return bitmap;
}

And when you get an ImageSource using the method above, source file will be immediately closed.

see MSDN social forum

Answer 2

I kept running into issues with this on a particularly troubling image. The accepted answer did not work for me.

Instead, I used a stream to populate the bitmap:

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
    bitmap.BeginInit();
    bitmap.StreamSource = fs;
    bitmap.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
    bitmap.EndInit();
}

This caused the file handle to be released.