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How do I change a PictureBox's image?

I have a program in C# with a PictureBox object inside a Form. How do I change its picture? The pictures to chose from are in bin/Pics; they are jpeg in format, if that matters..

Solution

  • Assign a new Image object to your PictureBox's Image property. To load an Image from a file, you may use the Image.FromFile method. In your particular case, assuming the current directory is one under bin, this should load the image bin/Pics/image1.jpg, for example:

    pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("../Pics/image1.jpg");

    Additionally, if these images are static and to be used only as resources in your application, resources would be a much better fit than files.