Load image from URL into Picturebox at runtime

[mralston]

I want to load an image into a PictureBox from a URL at runtime. Any ideas how?

I was attempting to do it like this

' Get image
        Dim oXMLHTTP As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP()
        oXMLHTTP.open("GET", "http://www.site.com/image.jpg")
        oXMLHTTP.send()

        Dim strImage As System.IO.Stream = oXMLHTTP.responseStream

        oXMLHTTP = Nothing

        ' Load image into Picture Box
        picProductImage.Image = Image.FromStream(strImage)

but it told me that the cast (data type?) of the responsestream and image objects didn't match. I also tried using

picProductImage.Image = Image.FromFile("http://www.site.com/image.jpg")

Only to be told that the FromFile method didn't support URLs.

So I'm stuck.

[Emerican]

Did you try using Ctype() function?

[mralston]

Well I changed line 6 of the code I posted to

Dim strImage As System.IO.Stream = CType(oXMLHTTP.responseStream, System.IO.Stream)

but the message is still the same

An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in macXchange Admin.exe

Additional information: Specified cast is not valid.

[PT Exorcist]

use webclient instead or httpclient

dim wc as new WebClient()
wc.downloaddata()

[Athley]

Dim url As String = "http://www.site.com/image.jpg"
    Dim wreq As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url)
    Dim wres As System.Net.HttpWebResponse = wreq.GetResponse
    PictureBox1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(wres.GetResponseStream)

[mralston]

System.Net Thank you! I was sure there must be some namespace with stuff to do what I wanted, but I couldn't find it. I was looking through System.Web but couldn't find much useful. Using the XML object was a last ditch effort anyway.

I feel rather silly now for not spotting that namespace!