Cannot delete file used by some other process
In order to be able to delete the image while it is displayed in an ImageControl, you have to create a new BitmapImage or BitmapFrame object that has BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad set. The bitmap will then be loaded from file immediately and the file is not locked afterwards.
Change your property from string TemplateImagePath
to ImageSource TemplateImage
and bind like this:
<Image Source="{Binding TemplateImage}"/>
The set the TemplateImage
property like this:
BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage();
image.BeginInit();
image.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
image.UriSource = new Uri(item.FullName);
image.EndInit();
TemplateImage = image;
or this:
TemplateImage = BitmapFrame.Create(
new Uri(item.FullName),
BitmapCreateOptions.None,
BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad);
If you want to keep binding to your TemplateImagePath
property you may instead use a binding converter that converts the string to an ImageSource as shown above.