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I'm finding a way to create an animated GIF in .NET or C++/CLI. Beacause I'm working for a commercial product, I need to avoid 3rd party libraries as much as possible. Therefore, some useful 3rd party libraries likes NGif, Bumpkit, ImageMagickare are not good options due to license concern.

I tried GifBitmapEncoder class in .NET to create animated GIF with: 

animatedGIF.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(myImagesList));
animatedGIF.Save(outputStream);

But all it does is to save the last image to .gif file not the whole images list for animated GIF.

My questions are:

  • Is it possible to make animated GIF with built in libraries/framework?

  • If it is impossible to do so, can you please recommend me any safe to use 3rd party libraries for commercial product without worrying about license problem?

  • Since I have never used 3rd party library in commercial product before, is there anything that I need to take note before using such 3rd party libraries?

Your help is very much appreciated.

Edit 1: I had searched through all the advices of this question: how to create an animated gif in .net. before I posted this question.

However, the class GifBitmapEncode .NET built in library doesn't solve the problem as I mentioned above. Other 3rd libraries are not safe to use due to license concern as I mentioned in my question.

Toan Tran
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  • Try looking at this previous question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196322/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-in-net – Edwin Jones Sep 07 '17 at 14:56
  • Possible duplicate of [how to create an animated gif in .net](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196322/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-in-net) – xMRi Sep 07 '17 at 17:08
  • Hi @EdwinJ85 and xMRi I had read that question before I posted my question but those advices don't solve my problem since I have to worry about license problem. Please see my Edit 1 for more detail. – Toan Tran Sep 08 '17 at 02:33

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