Visual Studio 2017 Winforms: Load picture from project folder into Picture Box

Question

I would like to create several folders in the project folder where I can save my images. Then I would like to load these pictures into a PictureBox.

How can I now load the Info_Hydraulik.png image?

An image with the path of the file

Kind regards and thank you in advance for your help.

Flammel

Answer 1

For Info_Hydraulik.png in Visual Studio's Properties change Build Actions to Embedded Resource.

If you use WinForms to load PNG to the `PictureBox':

using System.Reflection;

Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
// To list all resources use this:
// string[] names = assembly.GetManifestResourceNames();
using (Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream
    ("WindowsFormsApp1.Bu.Hell.Info_Hydraulik.png"))
{
    Image image = Image.FromStream(stream);
    pictureBox1.Image = image;
}

Adjust the namespace WindowsFormsApp1 in sample code to your project namespace.