Question

I have a small doubt regarding loading an image in PictureBox in WinForms.
I want to show an image file from file system in a PictureBox on my form, say form1.

I am doing Windows applications using C#.

I want to check the file type also say is it pdf/text/png/gif/jpeg.
Is it possible to programmatically open a file from file system using C#?
If anyone knows please give any idea or sample code for doing this.

Modified Code: I have done like this for opening a file in my system, but I don’t know how to attach the file and attach the file.

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {    
         string filepath = @"D:\";

    openFileDialog1.Filter = "Image Files (*.jpg)|*.jpg|(*.png)|*.png|(*.gif)|*.gif|(*.jpeg)|*.jpeg|";
    openFileDialog1.CheckFileExists = true;
    openFileDialog1.CheckPathExists = true;

    if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
    {
        try 
        {


        }        
    }
 }

I don’t know what I have to write in try block. Can anyone help on this?

Answer 1

Use Image.ImageFromFile http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.fromfile.aspx method

Image img = Image.ImageFromFile(openFileDialog1.FileName);

Should work.

EDIT

If you’re going to set it to PictureBox, and what to see complete inside it, use picturebox

SizeMode property.