Question

I would like to bind an Image to some kind of control an delete it later on.

path = @"c:\somePath\somePic.jpg"
FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(path);
Uri uri = new Uri(fi.FullName, UriKind.Absolute);
var img = new System.Windows.Controls.Image();
img.Source = new BitmapImage(uri);

Now after this code I would like to delete the file :

fi.Delete();

But I cannot do that since the image is being used now.
Between code fragment 1 en 2 what can I do to release it?

Answer 1

copy the image to MemoryStream before giving to imagesource
it should look like this

BitmapImage bi = new BitmapImage();
bi.BeginInit();
bi.DecodePixelWidth = 30;
bi.StreamSource = byteStream;
bi.EndInit();

where byteStream is copy of file in MemoryStream

also this can be useful