SvgDrawing Class

The difference between SvgDrawing and SvgViewbox is that SvgViewbox gets objects as Shapes (Canvas, Path, Polyline, etc) and SvgDrawing produces Drawings (DrawingGeometry, StreamGeometry, etc). Drawings have better performance and lower memory consumption, but Shapes support more functionality - layout, focus, mouse events, etc.

For more information about reading geometers see ReadGeometry(String, GeometrySettings).

For more information about setting the optimization percent see FromOptimizationPercentage(Int32).

SvgViewbox can be used in xaml. If you would like to read svg file in code and need some more advanced features and options please use ReaderSvg

To read the svg file set Source property. It supports the Pack URI (see also "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970069.aspx#Site_of_Origin_File_Pack_URIs"). Here are some of the example Sources that can be used to read svg file from various locations:

When using in code create new Uri with on of the above strings and set it to Source property.

<Window x:Class="Ab2d.ReaderSvgSample"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:ab2d="clr-namespace:Ab2d.Controls;assembly=Ab2d.ReaderSvg"
        Title="Window1" Height="500" Width="500"/>
     <Grid>
         <ab2d:SvgDrawing Name="mySvgDrawing" Source="myClipart.svg"
                          OptimizationPercent="100" Stretch="Uniform"/>  
     </Grid>
</Window>

The following example shows how to read svg file from stream:

var streamResourceInfo = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/Resources/home1.svg"));
if (streamResourceInfo != null)
{
    var mySvgImage = new Ab2d.Controls.SvgDrawing();
    mySvgImage.SourceStream = streamResourceInfo.Stream;
    mySvgImage.Width = 200;
    mySvgImage.Height = 100;

    myStackPanel.Controls.Add(mySvgImage);
}

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