Picture Boxes and the NET

Fallen

Does anyone have any ideas, hot to assign a picture from the net to a picture box at run time?

At the moment, i can get it to display a gif located on the net, but only at design time via the image property on the properties tab. This works like a charm, but when i come to trying this at runtime, i get this message:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: URI formats are not supported.

Any ideas on this?

iwilld0it

: Does anyone have any ideas, hot to assign a picture from the net to a picture box at run time?
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: At the moment, i can get it to display a gif located on the net, but only at design time via the image property on the properties tab. This works like a charm, but when i come to trying this at runtime, i get this message:
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: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
: Additional information: URI formats are not supported.
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: Any ideas on this?
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iwilld0it

: : Does anyone have any ideas, hot to assign a picture from the net to a picture box at run time?
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: : At the moment, i can get it to display a gif located on the net, but only at design time via the image property on the properties tab. This works like a charm, but when i come to trying this at runtime, i get this message:
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: : Additional information: URI formats are not supported.
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Try something like ...

picBox.Image = Image.FromFile("c:somepicture.bmp")

Fallen

: : : Does anyone have any ideas, hot to assign a picture from the net to a picture box at run time?
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: : : At the moment, i can get it to display a gif located on the net, but only at design time via the image property on the properties tab. This works like a charm, but when i come to trying this at runtime, i get this message:
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: Try something like ...
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: picBox.Image = Image.FromFile("c:somepicture.bmp")
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Yeah that what i was doing, the fromFile only works with local files, not URLs. But i have found a way around this, and now it works perfectly thanks anyways

iwilld0it

: : : : Does anyone have any ideas, hot to assign a picture from the net to a picture box at run time?
: : : :
: : : : At the moment, i can get it to display a gif located on the net, but only at design time via the image property on the properties tab. This works like a charm, but when i come to trying this at runtime, i get this message:
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: : : : An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
: : : : Additional information: URI formats are not supported.
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: Yeah that what i was doing, the fromFile only works with local files, not URLs. But i have found a way around this, and now it works perfectly thanks anyways
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Im pretty interested. What was your solution to the URL problem?

Fallen

: : : : : Does anyone have any ideas, hot to assign a picture from the net to a picture box at run time?
: : : : :
: : : : : At the moment, i can get it to display a gif located on the net, but only at design time via the image property on the properties tab. This works like a charm, but when i come to trying this at runtime, i get this message:
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: : : : : An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
: : : : : Additional information: URI formats are not supported.
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: : : : : Any ideas on this?
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: : : :
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: : : Try something like ...
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: : : picBox.Image = Image.FromFile("c:somepicture.bmp")
: : :
: :
: : Yeah that what i was doing, the fromFile only works with local files, not URLs. But i have found a way around this, and now it works perfectly thanks anyways
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: Im pretty interested. What was your solution to the URL problem?
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Like so:

Imports System.Net

Dim wc As New WebClient()

PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(wc.OpenRead("URL"))

I was looking at much more complicated solutions, and then i spotted the webclient class, and it works like a charm, there is a very small delay when retreiving the picture.

Hope that helps
-Fallen