Get or Write Image Metadata with C#

Good morning! it’s always fun when old code gets to get used again. And it gave me an opportunity to convert this snippet to C#. Basically what we are trying to do is write or get metadata to an image. As those folks who commented on the previous post noted, this code will not remove existing metadata. It is a problem I still have not found a solution for however. If any of you know the answer please let us know! Anyway here it is converted and still useable after all this time.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;
public class clsReadMetaData
{

public ImageMetadata ReadEXIFMetadata(string filepath)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
Image image__1 = Image.FromStream(fs);
PropertyItem[] imagePropertyItems = image__1.PropertyItems;
ImageMetadata imageMetadata = new ImageMetadata();
foreach (PropertyItem pi in imagePropertyItems)
{
switch ((EXIFProperty)pi.Id)
{
case EXIFProperty.Title:
imageMetadata.Title = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value);
//imageMetadata.Title = Encoding.UTF32.GetString(pi.Value)
break;
case EXIFProperty.Author:
imageMetadata.Author = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value);
//imageMetadata.Author = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pi.Value)
break;
case EXIFProperty.Keywords:
imageMetadata.Keywords = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value);
//imageMetadata.Keywords = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pi.Value)
break;
case EXIFProperty.Comments:
imageMetadata.Comments = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value);
//imageMetadata.Comments = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pi.Value)
break;
default:
break;
}
}
fs.Close();
return imageMetadata;
}
public void SaveEXIFMetadata(Image image, ImageMetadata metadata, string filepath)
{
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Title, metadata.Title, filepath);
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Author, metadata.Author, filepath);
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Keywords, metadata.Keywords, filepath);
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Comments, metadata.Comments, filepath);
}
private void SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(Image image, EXIFProperty property, string propertyValue, string filepath)
{
PropertyItem propertyItem = CreatePropertyItem();
propertyItem.Id = Convert.ToInt32(property);
// Type=1 means Array of Bytes.
propertyItem.Type = 2;
propertyItem.Len = propertyValue.Length;
//propertyItem.Value = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(propertyValue)
propertyItem.Value = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(propertyValue);
image.SetPropertyItem(propertyItem);
image.Save(filepath);
}
private PropertyItem CreatePropertyItem()
{
System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo ci = typeof(PropertyItem).GetConstructor(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public, null, new Type[0], null);
return (PropertyItem)ci.Invoke(null);
}
}
public enum EXIFProperty
{
Title = 40091,
Author = 40093,
Keywords = 40094,
Comments = 40092
}
public class ImageMetadata
{
private string _title = string.Empty;
private string _author = string.Empty;
private string _keywords = string.Empty;
private string _comments = string.Empty;
public ImageMetadata()
{
this._title = string.Empty;
this._author = string.Empty;
this._keywords = string.Empty;
this._comments = string.Empty;
}
public ImageMetadata(string title, string author, string keywords, string comments)
{
this._title = title;
this._author = author;
this._keywords = keywords;
this._comments = comments;
}
public string Title
{
get
{
return this._title;
}
set
{
this._title = value;
}
}
public string Author
{
get
{
return this._author;
}
set
{
this._author = value;
}
}
public string Keywords
{
get
{
return this._keywords;
}
set
{
this._keywords = value;
}
}
public string Comments
{
get
{
return this._comments;
}
set
{
this._comments = value;
}
}
}

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Class Set as DataContext in XAML without Code Behind

In dealing with a problem at work and I am probably as guilty as anyone of relying on code behind to do basic functions without soley using XAML. Why? Because that’s the way I have always done it. But it’s a new day and time to learn new ways to do things. So here we go….

This example shows a class set as datacontext – the code behind file is completely empty.

Have a great week….

 

<Window x:Class=”cSharpTest.MainWindow”
        xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”
        xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”
        xmlns:vm=”clr-namespace:cSharpTest”
        Title=”MainWindow” Height=”350″ Width=”525″>
    <Window.Resources>
        <vm:MyData x:Key=”ViewModel”/>
    </Window.Resources>
    <Grid DataContext=”{StaticResource ViewModel}”>
        <ListBox Name=”MyListBox” ItemsSource=”{Binding Primes}”/>
    </Grid>
</Window>

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace cSharpTest
{
    class MyData
    {
        public MyData()
        {
            _primes = new int[5] { 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 };
        }
        private int[] _primes;
        public  int[] Primes
        {
            get { return this._primes; }
         }
    }
}

C# Application linked to SharePoint List Web Service

This weekend found myself knee deep in a crisis that my friend who had migrated from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 (there were reasons he couldn’t go to 2010). Simply put the migration from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 had broken his application (tracking program that submitted data to a 2003 SharePoint List) because in SharePoint 2007  you can’t do this while not on the actual server if you have “Web Page Security Validation” enabled. So for the code below you have to have SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; . Obviously not the ideal solution for my friend but we didn’t have time to screw around. Here is what I did….

 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Collections;
using System.Xml;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Net;
 
namespace Trigger_Tracker
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {//form move on click and drag
        bool FormMoving;
        Point initialPoint;
        TriggerTrackerPictureBox frmPicture;
 
        public Form1()
        {//form move on click and drag
            InitializeComponent();
            comboBox1.SelectedIndex = 0;
            FormMoving = false;
 
            frmPicture = new TriggerTrackerPictureBox();
            frmPicture.localForm = this;
            frmPicture.Owner = this;
            frmPicture.Show();
            frmPicture.Width = 68;
            frmPicture.Height = 65;
            SetPositionOfPictureForm();
        }
 
        private void SetPositionOfPictureForm()
        {
            frmPicture.Top = this.Top + 26;
            frmPicture.Left = this.Left + 87;
        }
 
       
 
        private void TrackerButton(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string listGUID = “A93E1A7E-67D0-4D7D-A4ED-803D7DFE684B”;
            string viewGUID = “6B2F3EF2-4B0C-41E1-B87E-0C3185B587DD”;
            //string viewGUID2 = “6B2F3EF2-4B0C-41E1-B87E-0C3185B587DD”;
 
            int ItemCounter = 1;
            ServiceList.Lists listService = new ServiceList.Lists();
           // RetentionLists.ListsSoapClient listService = new RetentionLists.ListsSoapClient();
 
            //////
           listService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
           //listService.ChannelFactory.Credentials.Windows.ClientCredential   = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
 
            XmlNode activeItemData = listService.GetListItems(listGUID, viewGUID, null, null, “100”, null);
            XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
            string tmpString = activeItemData.InnerXml.Replace(“\r\r”, “”);
            xDoc.LoadXml(tmpString);
            XmlNamespaceManager nsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xDoc.NameTable);
            nsManager.AddNamespace(“z”, “#RowsetSchema”);
            nsManager.AddNamespace(“rs”, “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset”);
 
            XmlNodeList xNode = xDoc.SelectNodes(“/rs:data/z:row”, nsManager);
 
            foreach (XmlNode tmpNode in xNode)
                ItemCounter++;
 
            StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            strBuilder.Append(“<Method ID='” + ItemCounter + “‘ Cmd=’New’>”);
            strBuilder.Append(“<Field Name=’Attachments’>” + “0” + “</Field>”);
            strBuilder.Append(“<Field Name=’Title’>” + PolicyNumber.Text + “</Field>”);
            strBuilder.Append(“<Field Name=’Reason’>” + comboBox1.Text + “</Field>”);
            strBuilder.Append(“</Method>”);
 
            string strBatch = strBuilder.ToString();
 
            XmlDocument newDoc = new XmlDocument();
            XmlElement newElement = newDoc.CreateElement(“Batch”);
            newElement.SetAttribute(“OnError”, “Continue”);
            newElement.SetAttribute(“ViewName”, viewGUID);
            newElement.InnerXml = strBatch;
           
            XmlNode returnNode = listService.UpdateListItems(listGUID, newElement);
 
            this.comboBox1.Text = “Please Select….”;
            this.PolicyNumber.Text = “”;
            this.PolicyNumber.Mask = “0000000000”;
 
            comboBox1.Focus();
        }
 
       
 
 
        public void Form1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {//form move on click and drag
            FormMoving = false;
        }
 
        public void Form1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {//form move on click and drag
            if (FormMoving)
            {
                if ((Left + e.X – initialPoint.X) <= 0)
                    Left = 0;
                else if ((Right + e.X – initialPoint.X) >= Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Right)
                    Left = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Right – Width;
                else
                    Left = Left + e.X – initialPoint.X;
                if ((Top + e.Y – initialPoint.Y) <= 0)
                    Top = 0;
                else if ((Bottom + e.Y – initialPoint.Y) >= Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Bottom)
                    Top = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Bottom – Height;
                else
                    Top = Top + e.Y – initialPoint.Y;
            }
            SetPositionOfPictureForm();
        }
 
        public void Form1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {//form move on click and drag
            FormMoving = true;
            initialPoint = new Point(e.X, e.Y);
        }
 
        public void pictureBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {//form move on click and drag
            FormMoving = true;
            initialPoint = new Point(e.X, e.Y);
        }
 
        private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
        }
 
        private void pictureBox1_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
        }
 
        public void label1_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            FormMoving = false;
        }
 
        public void label1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            FormMoving = false;
        }
 
       
 
        public void Form1_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Opacity = 1;
        }
 
        public void Form1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if(!PolicyNumber.Focused)
                this.Opacity = .25;
        }
 
        public void pictureBox1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Opacity = 1;
        }
 
        public void pictureBox1_MouseHover_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Opacity = 1;
        }
 
        public void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            comboBox1.Focus();
        }
    }
}

Get or Write Image Metadata with vb.net

I recently started a new contract with a local company and their project is quite image intensive. One of the tasks set before me was to store custom data in an image. Things such as the title, comments and keywords. Turned out to be quite an extensive undertaking. With the help of some other sources, I came up with this code. Ironically as it turned out we can’t use my solution because of some issues with custom image formats that are not respected in Microsoft Windows. But it is here for you! I will post the C# version soon. Also pay attention to your encoding. This was an issue that tripped me up here for a while.

Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.IO
Public Class clsReadMetaData

Public Function ReadEXIFMetadata(ByVal filepath As String) As ImageMetadata
Dim fs As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
Dim image__1 As Image = Image.FromStream(fs)
Dim imagePropertyItems As PropertyItem() = image__1.PropertyItems
Dim imageMetadata As New ImageMetadata()
For Each pi As PropertyItem In imagePropertyItems
Select Case CType(pi.Id, EXIFProperty)
Case EXIFProperty.Title
imageMetadata.Title = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value)
‘imageMetadata.Title = Encoding.UTF32.GetString(pi.Value)
Exit Select
Case EXIFProperty.Author
imageMetadata.Author = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value)
‘imageMetadata.Author = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pi.Value)
Exit Select
Case EXIFProperty.Keywords
imageMetadata.Keywords = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value)
‘imageMetadata.Keywords = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pi.Value)
Exit Select
Case EXIFProperty.Comments
imageMetadata.Comments = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pi.Value)
‘imageMetadata.Comments = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pi.Value)
Exit Select
Case Else
Exit Select
End Select
Next
fs.Close()
Return imageMetadata
End Function
Public Sub SaveEXIFMetadata(ByVal image As Image, ByVal metadata As ImageMetadata, ByVal filepath As String)
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Title, metadata.Title, filepath)
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Author, metadata.Author, filepath)
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Keywords, metadata.Keywords, filepath)
SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(image, EXIFProperty.Comments, metadata.Comments, filepath)
End Sub
Private Sub SaveEXIFMetadataProperty(ByVal image As Image, ByVal [property] As EXIFProperty, ByVal propertyValue As String, ByVal filepath As String)
Dim propertyItem As PropertyItem = CreatePropertyItem()
propertyItem.Id = CInt([property])
‘ Type=1 means Array of Bytes.
propertyItem.Type = 2
propertyItem.Len = propertyValue.Length
‘propertyItem.Value = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(propertyValue)
propertyItem.Value = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(propertyValue)
image.SetPropertyItem(propertyItem)
image.Save(filepath)
End Sub
Private Function CreatePropertyItem() As PropertyItem
Dim ci As System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo = GetType(PropertyItem).GetConstructor(BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.[Public], Nothing, New Type() {}, Nothing)
Return DirectCast(ci.Invoke(Nothing), PropertyItem)
End Function
End Class
Public Enum EXIFProperty
Title = 40091
Author = 40093
Keywords = 40094
Comments = 40092
End Enum
Public Class ImageMetadata
Private _title As String = String.Empty
Private _author As String = String.Empty
Private _keywords As String = String.Empty
Private _comments As String = String.Empty
Public Sub New()
Me._title = String.Empty
Me._author = String.Empty
Me._keywords = String.Empty
Me._comments = String.Empty
End Sub
Public Sub New(ByVal title As String, ByVal author As String, ByVal keywords As String, ByVal comments As String)
Me._title = title
Me._author = author
Me._keywords = keywords
Me._comments = comments
End Sub
Public Property Title() As String
Get
Return Me._title
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
Me._title = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property Author() As String
Get
Return Me._author
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
Me._author = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property Keywords() As String
Get
Return Me._keywords
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
Me._keywords = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property Comments() As String
Get
Return Me._comments
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
Me._comments = value
End Set
End Property
End Class