[c#] Converting BitmapImage to Bitmap and vice versa

I have BitmapImage in C#. I need to do operations on image. For example grayscaling, adding text on image, etc.

I have found function in stackoverflow for grayscaling which accepts Bitmap and returns Bitmap.

So I need to convert BitmapImage to Bitmap, do operation and convert back.

How can I do this? Is this best way?

This converts from System.Drawing.Bitmap to BitmapImage:

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
YOURBITMAP.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage();
image.BeginInit();
ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
image.StreamSource = ms;
image.EndInit();

I've just been trying to use the above in my code and I believe that there is a problem with the Bitmap2BitmapImage function (and possibly the other one as well).

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())

Does the above line result in the stream being disposed of? Which means that the returned BitmapImage loses its content.

As I'm a WPF newbie I'm not sure that this is the correct technical explanation, but the code didn't work in my application until I removed the using directive.

using System.Windows.Interop; ...

 private BitmapImage Bitmap2BitmapImage(Bitmap bitmap)
        {                
            BitmapSource i = Imaging.CreateBitmapSourceFromHBitmap(
                           bitmap.GetHbitmap(),
                           IntPtr.Zero,
                           Int32Rect.Empty,
                           BitmapSizeOptions.FromEmptyOptions());
            return (BitmapImage)i;
        }

If you just need to go from BitmapImage to Bitmap it's quite easy,

private Bitmap BitmapImage2Bitmap(BitmapImage bitmapImage)
    {
        return new Bitmap(bitmapImage.StreamSource);
    }

Thanks Guillermo Hernandez, I created a variation of your code that works. I added the namespaces in this code for reference.

System.Reflection.Assembly theAsm = Assembly.LoadFrom("My.dll");
// Get a stream to the embedded resource
System.IO.Stream stream = theAsm.GetManifestResourceStream(@"picture.png");

// Here is the most important part:
System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage bmi = new BitmapImage();
bmi.BeginInit();
bmi.StreamSource = stream;
bmi.EndInit();

Here the async version.

public static Task<BitmapSource> ToBitmapSourceAsync(this Bitmap bitmap)
{
    return Task.Run(() =>
    {
        using (System.IO.MemoryStream memory = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
        {
            bitmap.Save(memory, ImageFormat.Png);
            memory.Position = 0;
            BitmapImage bitmapImage = new BitmapImage();
            bitmapImage.BeginInit();
            bitmapImage.StreamSource = memory;
            bitmapImage.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
            bitmapImage.EndInit();
            bitmapImage.Freeze();
            return bitmapImage as BitmapSource;
        }
    });

}

Here's an extension method for converting a Bitmap to BitmapImage.

    public static BitmapImage ToBitmapImage(this Bitmap bitmap)
    {
        using (var memory = new MemoryStream())
        {
            bitmap.Save(memory, ImageFormat.Png);
            memory.Position = 0;

            var bitmapImage = new BitmapImage();
            bitmapImage.BeginInit();
            bitmapImage.StreamSource = memory;
            bitmapImage.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
            bitmapImage.EndInit();
            bitmapImage.Freeze();

            return bitmapImage;
        }
    }