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ImageCodecInfo Class

.NET Framework 4.5

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The ImageCodecInfo class provides the necessary storage members and methods to retrieve all pertinent information about the installed image encoders and decoders (called codecs). Not inheritable.

System.Object
  System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo

Namespace:  System.Drawing.Imaging
Assembly:  System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)
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public sealed class ImageCodecInfo

The ImageCodecInfo type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public property Clsid Gets or sets a Guid structure that contains a GUID that identifies a specific codec.
Public property CodecName Gets or sets a string that contains the name of the codec.
Public property DllName Gets or sets string that contains the path name of the DLL that holds the codec. If the codec is not in a DLL, this pointer is null.
Public property FilenameExtension Gets or sets string that contains the file name extension(s) used in the codec. The extensions are separated by semicolons.
Public property Flags Gets or sets 32-bit value used to store additional information about the codec. This property returns a combination of flags from the ImageCodecFlags enumeration.
Public property FormatDescription Gets or sets a string that describes the codec's file format.
Public property FormatID Gets or sets a Guid structure that contains a GUID that identifies the codec's format.
Public property MimeType Gets or sets a string that contains the codec's Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type.
Public property SignatureMasks Gets or sets a two dimensional array of bytes that can be used as a filter.
Public property SignaturePatterns Gets or sets a two dimensional array of bytes that represents the signature of the codec.
Public property Version Gets or sets the version number of the codec.
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  Name Description
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Static member GetImageDecoders Returns an array of ImageCodecInfo objects that contain information about the image decoders built into GDI+.
Public method Static member GetImageEncoders Returns an array of ImageCodecInfo objects that contain information about the image encoders built into GDI+.
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
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GDI+ uses image encoders to convert the images stored in Bitmap objects to various file formats. Image encoders are built into GDI+ for the BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG formats. An encoder is invoked when you call the Save or SaveAdd method of a Image object.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 Beta, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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