Is it a Bitmap or MetaFile?

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Given a Stream that I know will be a picture, is there a way to programmatically determine if it is a Bitmap or a MetaFile when pulled from Image.FromStream(mystream)? Like a flag or something.

Environment: .NET, System.Drawing, C#/VB

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '11 at 18:37

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Image.RawFormat

answered Apr 20 '11 at 18:37

Mark Cidade

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Brilliant, don't know how I missed that! – Todd Main Apr 20 '11 at 18:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '11 at 18:34

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I think, by reading the first few bytes one sould be able to identify. LIke II* are the byes in tiff file. ‰PNGin png, BM in bmp files

answered Apr 20 '11 at 18:34

Subhash Lama

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Is it a Bitmap or MetaFile?

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