(ask) picture album like windows explorer

how create photo album, i wonder to create like windows explorer with thumbnail folder (as category) when i perform click the show all my picture inside folder and show the name without extension just filename, i just try it with listview.. can anyone help me to figure this out..

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Thumbnails are easy to create with the Image.GetThumbnailImage method. Creating that 3D folder effect is something that I would not suggest trying in Windows Forms. If you want to do that sort of thing then you should use WPF from the get-go. WPF has a steep learning curve but, once you're comfortable with it, effects like that are relatively simple.

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

Thumbnails are easy to create with the Image.GetThumbnailImage method. Creating that 3D folder effect is something that I would not suggest trying in Windows Forms. If you want to do that sort of thing then you should use WPF from the get-go. WPF has a steep learning curve but, once you're comfortable with it, effects like that are relatively simple.

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hi jmcilhinney ;)

i just want create 1 photo as thumbnail so i dont need 3d, how to do that on vb?
and the folder directory start with c:\photo will load all directory sub folder ex:
c:\photo\vacation\ <-- when thumbnail click will load all image in news folder
c:\photo\holiday\ <-- when thumbnail click will load all image in news folder
c:\photo\news\ <-- when thumbnail click will load all image in news folder
and etc

any possible to do that ?

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      For Each i As String In Directory.GetFiles("C:\")
            ListView1.Items.Add(Path.GetFileName(i)) 'the Path is a separate class of the System.IO Namespace that allows you to perform operations based on path information - such as GetFileName
        Next

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why only files show up, how to make the folder show up in listview?

Um, you're calling GetFiles, so why would you expect to get anything besides files? If the Directory class has a GetFiles method to get files, don't you think that it should be fairly easy to answer your own question with a little bit of logic?

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

Um, you're calling GetFiles, so why would you expect to get anything besides files? If the Directory class has a GetFiles method to get files, don't you think that it should be fairly easy to answer your own question with a little bit of logic?

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oh thank's for your correction;

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GetFiles

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change with ;

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Directory.GetDirectories

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can i load the thumbnail from random image inside the folder?

idk why i'm very confuse with this project... :(

Using purely managed code, to create a thumbnail, you must first load the file into an Image object and then call GetThumbnailImage. If you want a random file then you call GetFiles and choose a random element from that array.

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

Using purely managed code, to create a thumbnail, you must first load the file into an Image object and then call GetThumbnailImage. If you want a random file then you call GetFiles and choose a random element from that array.

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can you give me sample code?

i'm try with code like this, but the thumbnail still not appear

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For Each f As String In System.IO.Directory.GetFiles("C:\", "*.jpg")

            Dim img As Image = New Bitmap(f)

            ImageList1.Images.Add(img.GetThumbnailImage(96, 96, Nothing, Nothing))

            ListView1.Items.Add(f, ImageList1.Images.Count - 1)

            img.Dispose()

        Next

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Have you set ListView1.LargeImageList = ImageList1 (in design or runtime)?

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Have you set ListView1.LargeImageList = ImageList1 (in design or runtime)?

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in design

when i run my form, the listview just show directory name and blank imagelist :(