Reading data metadata from JPEG, XMP or EXIF in C#

Question

I\'ve been looking around for a decent way of reading metadata (specifically, the date taken) from JPEG files in C#, and am coming up a little short. Existing information, a

Answer 1

My company makes a .NET toolkit that includes XMP and EXIF parsers.

The typical process is something like this:

XmpParser parser = new XmpParser();
System.Xml.XmlDocument xml = (System.Xml.XmlDocument)parser.ParseFromImage(stream, frameIndex);

for EXIF you would do this:

ExitParser parser = new ExifParser();
ExifCollection exif = parser.ParseFromImage(stream, frameIndex);

obviously, frameIndex would be 0 for JPEG.