Find image format using Bitmap object in C#

Question

I am loading the binary bytes of the image file hard drive and loading it into a Bitmap object. How do i find the image type[JPEG, PNG, BMP etc] from the Bitmap object?

Answer 1

one weird problem i faced when i was trying to get the mime type using imagecodeinfo.. for some png files the guids were not exactly same...

first i was checking with the ImageCodecinfo and if code does not find the imageformat then i compared the imageformat using Matthias Wuttke's solution.

if both the above mentioned solution failed then used the extension method to get the file mime type..

if the mime type changes then the file also changes, we were calculating the downloaded files checksum to match with the checksum of the original file on the server .. so for us it was importent to get proper file as output.