Quote Originally Posted by brucevde
Resume Next ignores ALL unexpected errors. Wouldn't you want to know if the Path were valid or that the file which was chosen is a valid image file (and not say a Word Document).
As I understood it the whole point was that he didn't care why the image wasn't loaded just that if it wasn't he would have a circle in the picture box anyway. But it's true that he needs to check for an empty string (I didn't read the comments in his code closely enough).