Question

I am developing a paint like application in metro style with C#/XAML. I want to save whatever content is drawn on canvas as image. I have checked this solutions but it didn’t helped me.

Save canvas to bitmap
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saveenr/archive/2008/09/18/wpf-xaml-saving-a-window-or-canvas-as-a-png-bitmap.aspx

So how can I save the canvas content as image ? Please help me with sample coding.

Answer 1

It seems it is currently not supported out of the box like we were used to do it with WPF:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/dd66c749-efed-4b55-a716-e0aa3a637d28

While when doing HTML5/Javascript Metro apps you can do this:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/cf8c17dc-68d4-4777-951f-bb7f0665bd06