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Any additional feedback? Note This topic is intended for developers. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. Privacy policy. The topic introduces the bitmap decoder, a core Windows Imaging Component WIC codec component used to decode image files from a stream.

Bitmap decoders can be viewed as the outer container of a digital image and provides access to global properties and image frames. Some image formats support global thumbnails, previews, color contexts, or metadata, while others provide these properties only at the frame level.

Note, however, many of the standard image formats do not support these global properties. As such, many of the native codec implementations provided by WIC do not support the majority of these global properties.

See the table in the Native Bitmap Decoders section of this topic for information about global property support.

In WIC, bitmap decoders are represented by the IWICBitmapDecoder interface and provides access to these global properties of the bitmap and, more importantly, the frames it contains.

The following table lists the available native decoders, class identifier name, and support for global properties. Decoder By Etresoft Free to try. Download Now. Developer's Description By Etresoft. Just drop the files onto the application and it will determine the correct encoding scheme and decode accordingly.

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