Someone wrote me and asked a question about using the Windows Imaging Component in C#, trying to access the various IPTC, EXIF, and XMP metadata stored within a JPG. I pointed him at an older sample project with source code using the BitmapMetadata class. Using that component, you can get access to all of the metadata stored within a JPG. It doesn’t however, make it easy to necessarily understand the data — but it does give you access.