How to convert icon (Bitmap) to ImageSource?

Question

I have a button and an image named as image1 in my wpf app. I want add image source of the image1 from a file icon of a location or file path. Here is my code:

Answer 1

The error you get is because you try to assign a bitmap as the source of an image. To rectify that, use this function:

BitmapImage BitmapToImageSource(Bitmap bitmap)
{
    using (MemoryStream memory = new MemoryStream())
    {
        bitmap.Save(memory, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
        memory.Position = 0;
        BitmapImage bitmapimage = new BitmapImage();
        bitmapimage.BeginInit();
        bitmapimage.StreamSource = memory;
        bitmapimage.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
        bitmapimage.EndInit();

        return bitmapimage;
    }
}

like this:

image1.Source = BitmapToImageSource(ico.ToBitmap());