Working with Bitmap for Silverlight

With the official release of Silverlight 4, many familiar features are now possible out of the box. These features include drag and drop management, handling the right mouse button click, and printing. While most of these features were already possible using ComponentOne Silverlight 3 controls, Silverlight 4 adds value and flexibility to our studio as we continue to push the limits of the framework itself.

In this sample we will combine some of the new Silverlight 4 functionality with some classic ComponentOne Silverlight controls to enhance a common type of application; an image editor. Back in the Silverlight 2.0 days, ComponentOne released C1Bitmap, a fully manageable bitmap API for working with images on the client. In this sample we will pull together some different features of C1Bitmap, along with new features of Silverlight 4 to build a full image editing application.

The features of Silverlight 4 we will take advantage of are:

Drag and Drop onto Silverlight from outside sources
Printing

Users will be able to drag an image from an outside source, such as their Documents folder and drop it into the Silverlight Image Editor. Once in the editor, the user will then be able to print the image.

Functionalities we will implement using C1Bitmap are:

Cropping
Resizing
Warping
Undo/Redo

We will also be using C1Toolbar from Studio for Silverlight to complete the application.