[RESOLVED] Loading Images;

[Pac_741]

Hello, i'm developing a contacts manager that allows the user to choose a picture for the contacts, so i have a listbox, and custom listbox items, which contains a Datatemplate containing the image of the contact, so when i have more than 5 contacts my app gets kind of slow while loading the contacts, i have made several tests on how to load images quicker, but without good results.

This is the code i use to load images from a string value which is the path of the image.

FileStream Strm = new FileStream((string)value, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);                   
 
 BitmapImage Image = new BitmapImage();
Image.BeginInit();
Image.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
Image.StreamSource = Strm;
Image.EndInit();
 
Image.Freeze();
Strm.Dispose();
Strm.Close();
 
return Image;

If someone can improve this code, or let me know about some other way to load images faster i would appreciate it.

Thanks a lot

[chris128]

Cant you just set the image path in XAML (in your datatemplate) so that it handles all the converting etc for you? Might be a bit quicker than the way your doing it thats all.
If thats still slow, then I guess one option is to use something like the method that you are already using but make it Asynchronous (using a background worker for example) so that the images are still loaded but the app isnt waiting for them to be loaded before it can move on to doing anything else.

[Pac_741]

Thanks chris128, setting the image path in XAML makes it even more slow, i'm using the code i posted in a converter that returns a bitmapimage from a memorystream containing all byes from an image.

Thanks for the idea of using background worker, i will try that.

[Pac_741]

Nevermind, the problem is another part of my application

thanks anyway.