WPF Image Formats and Binding

Question

I have a project which requires be to convert an in memory System.Drawing.Bitmap into an in memory BitmapImage so I can bind the BitmapImage to an Image control via XAML. The problem I am running into is during the conversion the original bitmap gets shrunk and is very blurry.

This is very bad because the original bitmap is a bar code and I need this bar code to stay readable. Is there anything I can do to preserve the integrity of my bitmap? Or is it possible to bind a System.Drawing.Bitmap to an WPF Image control without first saving the bitmap and using a URI?

Also can anyone explain to me the difference between all these image formats? It seems as if there are a ton of them, they reside in numerous namespaces and it is a pain to convert between them.

EDIT.....

public static BitmapImage GetBitmapImage(Bitmap bmp)
    {
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
        bmp.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Bmp);

        BitmapImage bmpI = new BitmapImage();
        bmpI.BeginInit();
        bmpI.StreamSource = ms;
        bmpI.EndInit();

        ms.Close();
        ms.Dispose();

        return bmpI;
    }

Answer 1

Have you tried different bitmap scaling modes?

For example:

Image RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" ...

Answer 2

In my opinion, the easiest way to get rid of all those burdens is to create a user control, then put a

WindowsFormsHost

on to that control. After that you put a windows forms image to the host, and in the underlying code of the user control, you can create a dependency property to bind data and update changes to the image control.

Cheers.