Bitmapsource represents a single, constant set of pixels at a certain size and resolution.
What questions should have this tag:
.Net Framework questions utilizing the BitmapSource class under the System.Windows.Media.Imaging namespace.
Basic Definitions:
Maximum height and width of an image: 2^16 pixels at 32 bits per channel * 4 channels
Maximum size of a BitmapSource: 2^32 bytes (64 gigabytes)
Maximum image size: 4 (four) gigapixels
Minimum image size: 1x1
Brief Introduction:
Part of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) imaging pipeline, BitmapSource represents a single, constant set of pixels at a certain size and resolution. Multi-frame images and animations are not represented by BitmapSource.
Important Links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.imaging.bitmapsource.aspx
