Question

How can I assign an external image into the PictureBox in Visual Studio 2008 ?
Typically, When we use ChooseImage in PictureBox , Visual Studio adds the image to the exe file and it causes increasing exe file’s volume, I wanna add the image from a directory beside the exe file.
Is it possible in Visual Studio 2008?

P.S:
I don’t want add the image with C# code, because VS2008 doesn’t show it in developing time.

Answer 1

You can use Linked resources.

When you add a linked resource, the
.resx file that stores your project
resource information includes only a
relative path to the resource file on
disk. If you add images, videos, or
other complex files as linked
resources, you can edit them using a
default editor that you associate with
that file type in the Resource
Designer. When you add an embedded
resource, the data is stored directly
in the project’s resource (.resx)
file. Strings can only be stored as
embedded resources.embedded resources.

MSDN on Linked vs. Embedded Resources

P.S. I however still don’t get why would you need it—even if .exe doesn’t get bigger, the whole app package would have a bigger size, wouldn’t it?

Best,
Dan