[RESOLVED] Displaying picture in Image / picture control

[engineer]

Dear All,
I have placed an image control on my form. A bitmap picture(picture name is shapes) is placed at my C drive. There is also a command button on the form.

I want that when I click the button, the picture should be displayed in the image control.

When I use the following code in the click event of command button it gives me type mismatch error.

Me.Image1.Picture = "C:\shapes"
If I try to do so using Picture control, same error comes.

Plz help and guide.

Regards,

[guyvdn]

The type mismatch is because "C:\shapes" is a String and vb can't make an image of it. You have to load the picture from the file like this

Me.Image1.Picture = LoadPicture("C:\shapes.bmp")

Also make sure you include the extension of the image like bmp or gif or jpg ...

[iPrank]

use the LoadPicture function.

Like,

Picture1.Picture = LoadPicture("C:\shapes\SomePicture.jpg")

[engineer]

Thank you so much to both of you for your help.