Clear image cache created by <Image> - windows-runtime

Question

If I have an element like this in a Windows Store or Windows Phone application:
<Image Source="{Binding UrlToWebServer}" />
the image is cached locally. This is great. But how do I remove all cached images on disc from code?

Answer 1

You just have to set the imagesource to NULL
Something like this:
BitmapImage bitmapImage = myimage.Source as BitmapImage;
bitmapImage.UriSource = null;
myimage.Source = null;
This works for me. Here you can find mor infos handling images (section Image Caching for example).

Answer 2

Hi it´s a little bit late to answer this question but you can use this class to delete the cache of a specific files or all if you want
this is the class helper
class CacheCleanup : IDisposable
{
private DispatcherTimer cleanCacheTimer;
public CacheCleanup(TimeSpan? cleanInterval = null)
{
if (!cleanInterval.HasValue)
cleanInterval = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(0.2);
cleanCacheTimer = new DispatcherTimer();
cleanCacheTimer.Interval = cleanInterval.Value;
cleanCacheTimer.Tick += CleanCacheTimer_Tick;
cleanCacheTimer.Start();
}
private void CleanCacheTimer_Tick(object sender, object e)
{
try
{
StorageFolder localDirectory = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
string[] tmpCacheDirectories = Directory.GetDirectories(localDirectory.Path + "\\..\\ac\\inetcache");
foreach (string dir in tmpCacheDirectories)
{
string[] tmpCacheFilesPng = Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.png");
foreach (string file in tmpCacheFilesPng)
{
try
{
File.Delete(file);
Debug.WriteLine("Deleted png: " + file);
}
catch (Exception) { }
}
string[] tmpCacheFilesJpg = Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.jpg");
foreach (string file in tmpCacheFilesJpg)
{
try
{
File.Delete(file);
Debug.WriteLine("Deleted jpg: " + file);
}
catch (Exception) { }
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex) { Debug.WriteLine("ERROR CLEANING CACHE: " + ex.Message); }
}
public void Dispose()
{
if (cleanCacheTimer != null)
{
cleanCacheTimer.Stop();
cleanCacheTimer = null;
}
}
}
and this is the way how you can call this class in some part of your c# code
CacheCleanup cacheCleanup = new CacheCleanup();