Hi, I want to make an image browser, which allows you to view images in a selected directory as small thumbnails.

The thing is I have made a small test project that creates the thumbs. This project uses an image array to load the image boxes as required, but with this method I have not yet been able to design a way of showing the image proportionally in the thumb, instead it comes out stretched.

If I do the same thing with picture boxes I can make it work fine! but the only thing that bugs me is that if the selected directory has 100s or 1000s of pics the pictures boxes loaded will take up a lot of resources from the system(RAM Mainly).

What is the best way of constructing a thumbnail viewer?

Would it be better to draw the thumbnails in a picture box?
But this would mean a lot of code to check for which one was clicked and what about the label under each thumb?

Please Advise me!

Ram...Thanks in advance!!!