Jenny:Can you post a screenshot? Certainly can..  To confuse matters further, when the card is flipped back to the front again, it then looks like this... Which shows a correctly proportioned image on it. Flipping back to the back shows no different to the previous one. The view is being set as ...

No, they all just seem to set the image to the size of the card area, clipping in the case of the ''back'' of the card and making it pretty much full size on the front.  If anything, its stretching but not shrinking!!

Thanks for that, its worked a treat.... next question, the image does not seem to scale according to the region that i have configured thus...   RegionConfiguration w = new RegionConfiguration();w.FieldNames = ''Photo'';w.ImageStretch = Stretch.Uniform;w.ImageStretchDirection = StretchDirection.Both; ImageAndDataSurfaceConfiguration b = ...