[RESOLVED] Loading Images;

[Pac_741]

Hello, i'm developing a contacts manager that allows the user to choose a picture for the contacts, so i have a listbox, and custom listbox items, which contains a Datatemplate containing the image of the contact, so when i have more than 5 contacts my app gets kind of slow while loading the contacts, i have made several tests on how to load images quicker, but without good results.

This is the code i use to load images from a string value which is the path of the image.

FileStream Strm = new FileStream((string)value, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);                   
 
 BitmapImage Image = new BitmapImage();
Image.BeginInit();
Image.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
Image.StreamSource = Strm;
Image.EndInit();
 
Image.Freeze();
Strm.Dispose();
Strm.Close();
 
return Image;

If someone can improve this code, or let me know about some other way to load images faster i would appreciate it.

Thanks a lot