How to free the memory after the BitmapImage is no longer needed?

Question

First, I load a BitmapImage on the Image control on the Window. Second, I work with the Image control and then close the

Answer 1

You can call Dispose() on the images in the window's Closed event. I think it may also be possible to optimise your memory footprint using different caching options.

Edit:

You can't call Dispose(), instead, you might consider BitmapCacheOption.None. The image will be read directly from disk and not cached in memory.