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Create BMP image file via C#

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How to Create BMP Image File Using C#

Discover the simplicity of creating BMP image files with C#. This document provides essential insights and guidance, whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting. Learn the steps to seamlessly incorporate BMP image creation into your projects and enhance your programming skills. In order to create BMP files, we’ll use Aspose.Drawing for .NET library which is a feature-rich, powerful and easy to use 2D graphics drawing API for C# platform. Open NuGet package manager, search for Aspose.Drawing and install. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console.

Package Manager Console Command

PM> Install-Package Aspose.Drawing

Steps to Create BMP via C#

You need the aspose.drawing.dll to try the following workflow in your own environment.

  • Create bitmap object using Bitmap class.
  • Create graphics object using Graphics.FromImage() method.
  • Draw graphic elements.
  • Save created bitmap in BMP image format.

System Requirements

Aspose.Drawing for .NET is supported on all major operating systems. Just make sure that you have the following prerequisites.

  • Microsoft Windows or a compatible OS with .NET Framework, .NET Core, Windows Application, ASP.NET Web Application.
  • Development environment like Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • Aspose.Drawing for .NET referenced in your project.
 

Create BMP Image File - C#

 

About Aspose.Drawing for .NET API

Aspose.Drawing, a fully managed, cross-platform 2D graphic library, excels in drawing text, geometries, and images. It offers a System.Drawing compatible API, effortlessly transforming your existing code that relies on System.Drawing into a truly cross-platform solution. Developed against .NET Standard 2.0, Aspose.Drawing finds application in web, mobile, desktop, cloud, and IoT scenarios.

The drawing engine within Aspose.Drawing empowers users to render vector graphics, including lines, curves, and figures, alongside diverse text elements in various fonts, sizes, and styles. This rendering process occurs seamlessly on raster images, supporting a wide array of commonly used graphics file formats.

Process BMP via Free Online App

Create BMP images, as well as add text to images by visiting our Live Demos website The live demo has the following benefits:

  No need to download or setup anything
  No need to write any code
  Just upload your files and create text drawing in the web-browser
  Instantly get the download link for the resulting BMP file

BMP What is BMP File Format

Files having extension .BMP represent Bitmap Image files that are used to store bitmap digital images. These images format serves the purpose of opening the file on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux. The BMP file format can store data as two-dimensional digital images in both monochrome as well as color format with various color depths.

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Other Supported Resize Formats

BMP (Bitmap Picture)
EMF (Enhanced Metafile Format)
GIF (Graphical Interchange Format)
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
TIFF (Tagged Image Format)
WMF (Microsoft Windows Metafile)