Loading PictureBox Image from resource file with path Part 3

Question

I understand that this question has been asked  and answered  before  However  none of the solutions are working for me   Below is a screen capture of all the relevant pieces of the puzzle   Screen capture http   dinosaur-island com PlantPictureBoxScreenCap jpg  As you can see there are numerous bitmaps of plants loaded as resources into the Images folder  There is a form with a picturebox named  PlantPicture   There is string  which I know has a good path  because I ve checked it in the debugger                PicPath   PicPath   bmp     Screen capture http   dinosaur-island com PlantDebugger jpg  I ve tried numerous ways of loading  casting  etc   etc

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It depends on your file path   For me  the current directory was  project  bin Debug  so I had to move to the parent folder twice   Image image   Image FromFile         Pictures   text   png    this pictureBox1 Image   image    To find your current directory  you can make a dummy label called label2 and write this   this label2 Text   System IO Directory GetCurrentDirectory

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Ok   so first you need to import the image into your project   1  Select the PictureBox in the Form Design View  2  Open PictureBox Tasks  it s the little arrow printed to right on the edge of the PictureBox   3  Click on  Choose image      4  Select the second option  Project resource file    this option will create a folder called  Resources  which you can access with Properties Resources   5  Click on  Import     and select your image from your computer  now a copy of the image will be saved in  Resources  folder created at step 4   6  Click on  OK   Now the image is in your project and you can use it with the Properties command  Just type this code when you want to change the picture in the PictureBox   pictureBox1 Image   Properties Resources MyImage    Note  MyImage represent the name of the image    After typing  Properties Resources    all imported image files are displayed

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The path should be something like   Images a bmp    Note the lack of a leading slash  and the slashes being back slashes    And then   pictureBox1 Image   Image FromFile   Images a bmp      I just tried it to make sure  and it works  This is besides the other answer that you got - to  copy always

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The accepted answer has major drawback  If you loaded your image that way your PictureBox will lock the image so if you try to do any future operations on that image you will get error message image used in another application  This article show solution in VB  and This is C  implementation   FileStream fs   new System IO FileStream   Images a bmp   FileMode Open  FileAccess Read     pictureBox1 Image   Image FromStream fs     fs Close

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Setting  Copy to Output Directory  to  Copy always  or  Copy if newer  may help for you   Your PicPath is a relative path that is converted into an absolute path at some time while loading the image  Most probably you will see that there are no images on the specified location if you use      Path GetFullPath PicPath     in Debug

[c#] Loading PictureBox Image from resource file with path (Part 3)

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