Question

I would like to create an image viewer. I do not know where to start. Could you please give me some tips to start with.

I have the following point in my mind

• Create a custom control, override the paint event. Use properties to read, flip, rotate and zoom the images
• Create a user control with a panel inside, set the background to the image while i set the public property ‘read’. Implement properties to rotate, flip,zoom

Answer 1

I suggest you use WPF instead winforms
Zoom, Pan example using WPF : http://blogs.windowsclient.net/joeyw/archive/2009/06/02/pan-and-zoom-updated.aspx

This topic has sample codes for rotation etc:

This topic provides an introduction to
the Microsoft Windows Presentation
Foundation Imaging Component. WPF
Imaging enables developers to display,
transform, and format images.

This topic contains the following
sections.

WPF Imaging Component
WPF Image Formats
Displaying Images in WPF
Image Metadata
Codec Extensibility
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