Contents tagged with Windows Imaging Components
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State of .NET Image Resizing: how does imageresizer do?
I've written several times before about image resizing
in .NET and how the various built-in solutions (GDI, WPF
and WIC) compare in terms of quality, speed and size.
I'll put the links to my previous articles at the end of
this post for reference.
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The fastest way to resize images from ASP.NET. And it’s (more) supported-ish.
I’ve shown before
how to resize images using GDI, which is fairly common but is explicitly unsupported
because we know of very real problems that this can
cause. Still, many sites still use that method because
those problems are fairly rare, and because most people
assume it’s the only way to get the job done. Plus, it
works in medium trust.
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Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG
I’ve shown before
how to generate thumbnails from ASP.NET server code
using the WPF media APIs
instead of GDI+ (which is unsupported when used in
server code).
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Resizing images from the server using WPF/WIC instead of GDI+
I and many others have
written
about
resizing images
using
GDI+, or rather its .NET façade,
System.Drawing. It works. But there is just this one sentence at the
bottom of
the documentation: