coder000 » icon http://coder000.com an exploration, a quest... to grow Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:46:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Convert Image to Icon and Icon to Image in VB Net http://coder000.com/convert-image-to-icon-and-icon-to-image-in-vb-net/ http://coder000.com/convert-image-to-icon-and-icon-to-image-in-vb-net/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:51:48 +0000 Rahul Vyas http://coder000.com/?p=231 This discussion is about conversion of an image into icon and of an icon into image. Apart from the code and technique of conversion, you will find some bits on FileOpenDialog, FileSaveDialog, Exception Handling, MakeTransparent method, FileStream, IntPtr (Integer Pointer), GetHicon & FromHandle methods as well.

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Image to Icon

The code in the click event handler of Load button is:

foD.Filter = "Image Files (*.bmp; *.jpg; *.gif; *.tiff; *.png) | *.bmp;*.jpg;*.gif;*.tiff;*.png" foD.ShowDialog() Try pctSImg.Image = pctSImg.Image.FromFile(foD.FileName) Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show("Please check that you have entered correct filename. If filename is correct the image file might be corrupt...", "File cannot be loaded", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error) End Try

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