Why WPicture.Dispose() doesn't dispose the loaded picture in WinRT FileFormat Libraries ?
In our older versions of Essential® Studio® (before 10.3.0.53), we preserved the System.Drawing.Image instance as a reference in WPicture and PictureWatermark. Therefore, it was necessary to dispose of the System.Drawing.Image instance preserved in the WPicture object before deleting the image file. However, in later versions (from 10.3.0.53), we optimized memory utilization by preserving a single reference of an image for the entire document as image bytes instead of a System.Drawing.Image instance. Kindly dispose of the System.Drawing.Image instance explicitly before attempting to delete the image file in later versions.
Below code snippets demonstrate how to delete the image file after setting it as a picture watermark in Word documents.
C#:
PictureWatermark watermark = new PictureWatermark(); // Gets the image file FileInfo imageFile = new FileInfo(imagePath); // Loads image from file system Image image = Image.FromFile(imagePath); // Sets the image to the PictureWatermark watermark.Picture = image; document.Watermark = watermark; // Dispose of the image image.Dispose(); // Delete the image file imageFile.Delete();
VB:
Dim watermark As New PictureWatermark()
'Gets the image file
Dim imageFile As New FileInfo(imagePath)
'Loads image from file system
Dim image As Image = Image.FromFile(imagePath)
'Sets the image to the PictureWatermark
watermark.Picture = image
document.Watermark = watermark
'Dispose of the image
image.Dispose()
'Delete the image file
imageFile.Delete()
Below code snippets demonstrate how to delete the image file after loading it as a picture in Word documents.
C#:
// Gets image file FileInfo imageFile = new FileInfo(imagePath); // Loads image from file system Image image = Image.FromFile(imagePath); // Appends picture to the paragraph IWPicture picture = paragraph.AppendPicture(image); // Dispose of the image image.Dispose(); // Delete the image file imageFile.Delete();
VB:
Dim watermark As New PictureWatermark() ‘Get image file Dim imageFile As New FileInfo(imagePath) ‘Loads image from file system Dim image As Image = Image.FromFile(imagePath) ‘Appends picture to the paragraph Dim picture As IWPicture = paragraph.AppendPicture(image); ‘Dispose of the image image.Dispose() ‘Delete the image file imageFile.Delete()
