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Purpose
The Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is an extensible platform that provides low-level API for digital images. WIC supports the standard web image formats, high dynamic range images, and raw camera data. WIC also supports additional features such as:
- Built-in support for standard metadata formats
- Extensible framework for image codecs, pixel formats, and metadata formats.
- Wide range of pixel format support.
- High-color support; including 30-bit extended range, 30-bit high precision, and 48-bit high precision and wide gamut pixel formats.
- Progressive image decoding.
Developer Audience
WIC is designed to meet the needs of the following classes of developers:
- Developers who read and write image data in an application.
- Developers who read and write image metadata in an application.
- Developers who want run-time codec discovery for newly designed or implemented image codecs.
- Developers designing or implementing new image codecs and metadata formats.
In this section
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| What's New in WIC |
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| Programming Guide |
Describes how to use the WIC APIs. |
| Reference |
Contains the reference for the WIC APIs. |
| WIC Samples |
Provides samples for WIC. |
| Glossary |
Defines terms that are used in WIC. |