How to Load an Image from the Local Directory into the PictureBox in C#

Submitted by janobe on Friday, November 9, 2018 - 22:28.

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to load an image from the local directory into the picturebox in c#. In here , I used the openfiledialog to access the local directory. In this way, I can get an image and put it into the picturebox.

Creating Application

Step 1

Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and create a new windows form application in c#. loadimage1

Step 2

Add a PictureBox ,OpenFileDialog and Button into the form. loadimage2

Step 3

Double click the button to fire the click event handler of it and do the following code to get an image from the local directory and load it into the picturebox.

 
            //filter the file you want to get
            openFileDialog1.Filter = "img (*.jpg)|*.jpg|All files (*.*)|*.*";
            //set an intial directory
            openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = @"C:\";
            //Put the title in the dialog box
            openFileDialog1.Title = "Please select an image.";
            //validating result
            if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                //set the image to be stretch
                pictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage;
                //load the image in the picture box
                pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile(openFileDialog1.FileName);
            }

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