#storagefile

How to get the file size of Storage File in Windows phone app #wpdev http://wtuts.me/filesize

StorageFile class provides different methods with the help of which we can retrieve the file size of a give StorageFile.

  In the given function below we retrieve the file size of a given StorageFile using GetBasicPropertiesAsync() method. This method returns the basic properties of the given Storagefile in form of class object from which we can get the size of the given StorageFile.

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Convert StorageFile to a BitmapImage in Universal Windows Apps

We have already seen how to convert a WritableBitmap to a StorageFile in Universal Windows apps.

  A StorageFile can be converted to a BitmapImage using the following function.

public class ImageUtils { public static async Task StorageFileToBitmapImage(StorageFile savedStorageFile) { using (IRandomAccessStream fileStream = await savedStorageFile.OpenAsync(Windows.Storage.FileAccessMode.Read)) {…

WriteableBitmap is quite useful when an app requires image processing. It provides a BitmapSource, that can be written and manipulated. Ultimately that bitmap source is supplied to an image control of a Windows Store app. We are going to save the WritableBitmap to a StorageFile in our app.

For image encoding WinRT offers the BitmapEncoder class. For image encoding we need to select a BitmapEncode…