Pan, Zoom & Rotate Images With WPF using C#

WPF is a awesome tool for the person who wants his software to look good. So many effects as well as animations can be applied in WPF. Today I’m going to talk about how to have  UI which will allow a user to rotate zoom and pan an image within a WPF application.

Now lets get started by creating a wpf application, now your newly created application will have a window and a grid inside the window. See the below XAML

<window x:Class="PanandZoom.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Window1" Height="600" Width="800">
    <grid>
    </grid>
</window>

Inside the gird we created lets create two rows, one row will hold the slider for the rotation and the other row will hold the image which we will be playing with add the following snippet inside the <grid></grid> in the XAML.

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