Programming - Silvelight 2 - Working out dimensions of a dynamically loaded image

Silverlight is an excellent platform, but lacks the ability to inspect a dynamically loaded image's size until rendered. So here is a snippet to do just that.

Uri path = new Uri(“YOUR URL”, UriKind.Absolute);

            BitmapImage bitmapImage = new BitmapImage();

            bitmapImage.UriSource = path;

            bitmapImage.DownloadProgress +=

                new EventHandler<DownloadProgressEventArgs>(bitmapImage_DownloadProgress);

                        yourImage = new Image();

            yourImage.Source = bitmapImage;

void bitmapImage_DownloadProgress(object sender, DownloadProgressEventArgs e)

        {

            if (e.Progress == 100)

            {

                Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(delegate()

                {

                   GetSizes();

                });

            }

        } 

void GetSizes (){

    double height = yourImage.ActualHeight;

    double width = yourImage.ActualWidth;

}