The Windows Imaging Component supports discovery of new and proprietary (e.g., Raw) image formats. Any application that uses WIC can take advantage of new image formats as soon as their CODECs (encoder/decoders) are installed on the computer.
WIC includes updated CODECs for JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, & BMP that are more secure than previously released CODECs for these formats, and also supports a new high-performance image format called Windows Media Photo. Additionally, WIC provides metadata readers and writers for common image metadata formats, and enables applications to preserve their own metadata inside image files so they don't need to create "sidecar files".
Download: Windows Imaging Component RC1
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
WIC includes updated CODECs for JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, & BMP that are more secure than previously released CODECs for these formats, and also supports a new high-performance image format called Windows Media Photo. Additionally, WIC provides metadata readers and writers for common image metadata formats, and enables applications to preserve their own metadata inside image files so they don't need to create "sidecar files".
Download: Windows Imaging Component RC1This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737408.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
RC1: v6.0.5520.16384
Final: v6.0.5840.16388
Last edited by BrainDedd on 09 Jan 2007 - 15:08
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
EDIT: This is the RC1 date from server - Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:15:59 GMT
And the final version dated Tue, 24 Oct 2006 (both 32 and 64 flavors)
Last edited by pjak on 09 Jan 2007 - 19:28
Lesson learned for today.
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