http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/11/19/windows-imaging-component-and-windows-8.aspxThere are a number of new features and some bugs fixed in the Windows Imaging Component for Windows 8 . With the installation of KB 2670838 this new version of WIC is also available on Windows 7 Service Pack 1. The Windows 8.0 SDK contains the latesten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/11/19/windows-imaging-component-and-windows-8.aspx#10395810Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:25:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10395810Chuck Walbourn - MSFT<p>Which OS are you using? According to <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee720052(v=vs.85).aspx">this</a> page, WIC CODECS at least should be thread-safe.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10395810" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/11/19/windows-imaging-component-and-windows-8.aspx#10395744Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:49:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10395744xoofx<p>Hi Chuck,</p> <p>A user of SharpDX has reported that using WIC in multithreading to decode JPEG image in // is producing some corrupted images.</p> <p>Do you know if &nbsp;WIC is actually thread-safe?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10395744" width="1" height="1">