Question

im trying to recreate a very simple example of a C# project i WPF, its a simple image viewer.. from the sam’s teach yourself C#, ive managed to get the open file dialog to open, but how do i set the image path to the image.source control in WPF?

private void SearchBtn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
     Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog openfile = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog();
     openfile.DefaultExt = "*.jpg";
     openfile.Filter = "Image Files|*.jpg";
     Nullable<bool> result = openfile.ShowDialog();
     if (result == true)
     {
       //imagebox.Source = openfile.FileName;
     }
}

Answer 1

imagebox.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(openfile.FileName));