Image -> Icon

How can you convert an Image object to be used where an Icon object is needed, without writing it to a file first?

I have an object that already has an Image and I want to use that Image in a statusbar panel or an image from my imagelist but I get a 'Specified cast is not valid'. Even when the item in the imagelist was an icon to begin with. I also tried the IconConverter class with no luck. I also tried saving the Image to a MemoryStream and then geting the Icon from the stream but It seems the RawFormat of an Icon is null so it complains about that.

Am I stuck writing it to a file and then loading it as the icon and deleting the file?

Here is some of the code I've tried:

VB Code:

'has a casting problem
sbpMsg.Icon = ilstMain.Images(2).Clone
 
'same here
sbpMsg.Icon = CType(ilstMain.Images(2).Clone, Icon)
 
'says value can't be null
Dim ms As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()
ilstMain.Images(2).Save(ms, ilstMain.Images(2).RawFormat)
Dim ico As New Icon(ms)
sbpMsg.Icon = ico
ms.Close()
 
'I've also tried switching the RawFormat to a format like
ilstMain.Images(2).Save(ms, Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Icon)
 
'tried this too but that gets back to the casting problem
ilstMain.Images(2).Save(ms, Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp)

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Hey pal, To convert Icon to Image:

Dim myIcon As System.Drawing.Icon
Dim myImage As System.Drawing.Image
myImage = CType(myIcon.ToBitmap, System.Drawing.Image)

And to convert Image to Icon:
myIcon = System.Drawing.Icon.FromHandle(CType(myImage, System.Drawing.Bitmap).GetHicon())

You the man, Vahid!

Thanks a lot that one was troubling me.