Help Newbie on Loading Picture

[markbarr]

Hi Guys

First post here Im sure this is something simple but I cant get it to work

I have a Picturebox on my form with a blank picture in it

I have a button which when clicked opens the opendialog picture box so I can select a jpg file it then loads into the picturebox a picture using the following code

PictureBox5.Image = Image.FromFile(openFileDialog1.FileName)

This all works fine except i cant see all the picture as it needs fitting to the size of the picturebox

I tried the following code to no avail

PictureBox5.BackgroundImageLayout = ImageLayout.Stretch

any ideas where i have gone wrong? is there another way to achieve what I am trying to do?

Thanks

Mark

[jmcilhinney]

The BackgroundImageLayout is irrelevant because you're not setting the BackgroundImage. What you want is the SizeMode property. Most likely you'll want to set it to Zoom, which displays the Image as large as possible while maintaining the original aspect ratio.

[markbarr]

The BackgroundImageLayout is irrelevant because you're not setting the BackgroundImage. What you want is the SizeMode property. Most likely you'll want to set it to Zoom, which displays the Image as large as possible while maintaining the original aspect ratio.

thank you Jmcilhinney

PictureBox5.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage did exactly what i wanted

Mark