Converting between IPictureDisp and System.Drawing.Image

IPictureDisp and System.Drawing.Image

.NET4Office — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:17:24 GMT

Check out this great post by Andrew Whitechapel on this issue which comes up all the time in Office development

re: Converting between IPictureDisp and System.Drawing.Image

ramon s — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:01:01 GMT

Great article. Please write about how to preserve alpha channels when you go from an IPictureDisp to an Image. I'm using application.commandbars.getImageMso("control_id") function to get a few icon images, but they look terrible without alpha blending on my windows forms controls. I haven't figured out how to preserve the alpha in this case!

Preserving the alpha channel when converting images

Andrew Whitechapel — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:23:45 GMT

Here is a guest post by Eric Faller, Ribbon developer guru and all-round nice guy. It's a follow-up to

re: Converting between IPictureDisp and System.Drawing.Image

Mario Esposito — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:05:31 GMT

you never disapoint me ! This post just solved a problem that I was hitting lately.

re: Converting between IPictureDisp and System.Drawing.Image

andreww — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:19:52 GMT

Mario - thanks! :-)

btw - did you see the follow-up post on preserving the alpha channel? http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2007/10/10/preserving-the-alpha-channel-when-converting-images.aspx