Read metadata from images 23 december 2008 Allan Imaging, .NET Using the .NET 3.0 framework you can gain access to some of the metadata that is stored in images. What you need to do is add the following references to your project PresentationCore (part of the 3.0 framework)WindowsBase (Also part of the 3.0 framework) Then you can see from the following code how you can access some of the various properties found in the metadata using System; using System.Windows.Media.Imaging; using System.IO; using System.Reflection; namespace ImageReader { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string filepath = @""; FileInfo f = new FileInfo(filepath); if (f.Exists) { using (FileStream fs = f.OpenRead()) { BitmapSource img = BitmapFrame.Create(fs, BitmapCreateOptions.IgnoreImageCache, BitmapCacheOption.None); double mpixel = (img.PixelHeight * img.PixelWidth) / (double)1000000; Console.WriteLine("ImageDimensions: {0}x{1} - {2}MP", img.PixelWidth, img.PixelHeight, mpixel); BitmapMetadata meta = (BitmapMetadata)img.Metadata; if (meta != null) { foreach (PropertyInfo inf in typeof(BitmapMetadata).GetProperties()) { if (inf.PropertyType == typeof(string) || inf.PropertyType == typeof(int) || inf.PropertyType == typeof(bool)) Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", inf.Name, inf.GetGetMethod().Invoke(meta, new object[0])); else if (inf.PropertyType == typeof(System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection)) { Console.WriteLine(new string('-', 80)); Console.WriteLine(inf.Name); object ob = inf.GetGetMethod().Invoke(meta, new object[0]); if (ob != null) { foreach (string r in ob as System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection) Console.WriteLine(" {0}", r); } Console.WriteLine(new string('-', 80)); } else Console.WriteLine(inf.PropertyType.FullName); } } fs.Close(); } } } } }