How to load Bitmap image to Image object in WPF

Introduction

I am doing an application (which I am converting Windows forms 2.0 application into WPF application for rich look) in WPF and I am need of the load the Image from an instance of a System.Drawing.Bitmap.

Initially I was struggled to do this. After a few minutes of search in goggle, I found the following solution. With help of Imaging class, we can create a BitmapSource and assign the BitmapSource value to the Image. The following code will help you to do this.

CodeSnippet

public static BitmapSource ToBitmapSource(this System.Drawing.Bitmap source)
    {
        BitmapSource bitmapSrc = null;
        var hBitmap = source.GetHbitmap();try{
            bitmapSrc = System.Windows.Interop.Imaging.CreateBitmapSourceFromHBitmap(
                hBitmap,
                IntPtr.Zero,
                Int32Rect.Empty,
                BitmapSizeOptions.FromEmptyOptions());
        }catch (Win32Exception)
        {
            bitmapSrc = null;
        }finally{
            NativeMethods.DeleteObject(hBitmap);
        }return bitmapSrc;
    }internal static class NativeMethods
    {
        [DllImport("gdi32.dll")]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]internal static extern bool DeleteObject(IntPtr hObject);
    }

 I hope this snippet to help to you all.