WPF BitmapImage Serialization/Deserialization - wpf

Question

I've been trying to Serialize and Deserialize BitmapImages. I've been using methods which supposedly works which I found in this thread: error in my byte[] to WPF BitmapImage conversion?
Just to iterate what is going on, here is part of my Serialization code:
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
// This is a BitmapImage fetched from a dictionary.
BitmapImage image = kvp.Value;
PngBitmapEncoder encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(image));
encoder.Save(ms);
byte[] buffer = ms.GetBuffer();
// Here I'm adding the byte[] array to SerializationInfo
info.AddValue((int)kvp.Key + "", buffer);
}
And here is the deserialization code:
// While iterating over SerializationInfo in the deserialization
// constructor I pull the byte[] array out of an
// SerializationEntry
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(entry.Value as byte[]))
{
ms.Position = 0;
BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage();
image.BeginInit();
image.StreamSource = ms;
image.EndInit();
// Adding the timeframe-key and image back into the dictionary
CapturedTrades.Add(timeframe, image);
}
Also, I'm not sure if it matters but earlier when I populated my dictionary I encoded Bitmaps with PngBitmapEncoder to get them into BitmapImages. So not sure if double-encoding has something to do with it. Here's the method that does that:
// Just to clarify this is done before the BitmapImages are added to the
// dictionary that they are stored in above.
private BitmapImage BitmapConverter(Bitmap image)
{
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
image.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
BitmapImage bImg = new BitmapImage();
bImg.BeginInit();
bImg.StreamSource = new MemoryStream(ms.ToArray());
bImg.EndInit();
ms.Close();
return bImg;
}
}
So the problem is, serialization and deserialization works fine. No errors, and the dictionary has entries with what seems to be BitmapImages, however their width/height and
some other properties are all set to '0' when I look at them in debugging-mode. And of course, nothing is shown when I try to display the images.
So any ideas as to why they aren't properly deserialized?
Thanks!

Answer 1

1) You should not dispose MemoryStream, used from image initializing. Remove using in this line
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(entry.Value as byte[]))
2) After
encoder.Save(ms);
Try adding
ms.Seek(SeekOrigin.Begin, 0);
ms.ToArray();