xmp-sharp is a wrapper for Adobe's XMP Toolkit SDK and will allow you to add, modify and/or delete XMP using any .NET 2.0 Application (ie. C#, VB.NET, etc.). Currently, the antique version 4.1.1 of Adobe's SDK is wrapped.

The following instructions have been tested with VS 2012. Building xmp-sharp is a four-step process:

• Compile Adobe's XMP Toolkit SDK
  Open XMP-SDK\build\vsnet\XMPToolkit.sln and compile the desired platform (e.g. Release x64).
• Copy the generated .lib files (e.g. XMPCoreStaticRelease64.lib and XMPFilesStaticRelease64.lib from XMP-SDK\public\libraries\windows_x64\release\) to SE.Halligang\XmpToolkit\lib\.
• Compile the managed XMP Toolkit wrapper
  Open SE.Halligang\XmpToolkit\XmpToolkit.sln and compile the same platform as before.
• Compile the C# XMP Toolkit
  Open SE.Halligang\CsXmpToolkit\CsXmpToolkit.sln and compile the same platform as before.

If you want to use xmp-sharp in your application you must add a reference to CsXmpToolkit.dll and copy the correct version of XmpToolkit.dll (e.g. from SE.Halligang\XmpToolkit\x64\Release\) to the path (e.g. your application's working directory).

Copyright 2007-2013 Martin Sanneblad
Copyright 2016 Hannes Hofmann

xmp-sharp is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. It is based on code from C# XMP Toolkit made available under the 3-clause BSD license. It includes Adobe's XMP Toolkit SDK made available under the 3-clause BSD license.

xmp-sharp is a fork of C# XMP Toolkit, because

• The original project has not been updated since 2013-04-24.
• It is impossible to trace and contact the author of the original project.

• xmp-core-dotnet: Port of Adobe's SDK version 5.1.2 to managed C#. It lacks the schema classes and the XMPFiles project.