Displaying a GIF in Silverlight

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Saqib picture Saqib · Sep 22, 2009 · Viewed 12k times · Source

I have a number of gifs in a folder on my web server /dir/subdir/bla.gif etc.

On that same server is a Silverlight 3 application /ClientBin/bla.xap.

Is there any way to display the gifs in the Silverlight app?

I've tried <Image x:Name=img" /> and then in code setting this.img.Source=new BitmapImage(new Uri("/dir/subdir/bla.gif")) with no success.

Any ideas welcome.

Answer

Dave Swersky picture Dave Swersky · Sep 22, 2009

You might look into Silverlight ImageTools on Codeplex: http://imagetools.codeplex.com/

Project Description

ImageTools for Silverlight is a library, which provides additional functionality for loading, saving and manipulation images from different sources and with different formats.

At the moment the library is able to load the most important png, jpg, bmp and gif formats. Please have a look at the following demo and select a image which should be displayed. If an error messages appears this means, that the file is not supported yet and I would very happy for a comment with the image attached, which you used for testing.

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