[RESOLVED] [2005] difference between images and bitmaps

[maged]

Hello all,
Since i am somehow stupid in the graphics objects in the .net framework, can anyone tell me the technical difference between images and bitmaps objects ?? and also if i can switch bitmaps back to image objects ??

thank you in advance for ur time

[Troy Lundin]

Image Class
Bitmap Class

A quick search on msdn came up with those links.

[jmcilhinney]

A bitmap is an image format that contains information to describe each pixel. The Bitmap class represents a bitmap object in .NET code. The Bitmap class inherits the Image class, which represents various image formats including bitmaps. Every Bitmap is an Image, but not every Image is a Bitmap. The Image class can save any image as bitmap though.

[maged]

thx all for your help
and special thanks for jmcilhinney regarding the brief and direct to goal description