bmp = new Bitmap(FilePath); and OOM CF 2.0

I have an ICOP board that has 128 onboard RAM.

When I call bmp = new Bitmap(FilePath); and the jpg that it is loading is
over 500K I get an out of Memory error.

I can load this larger jpg using ImageViewer or browing to it with IE
without errors.

This happens in debug mode and when I create a release build and run the exe
directly on the device

Why is this happening? Any suggestions on fixing this? I tried
GC.Collect() before loading the bmp and that did not help.

500K JPEG can easily take out all available virtual memory (which is limited
to 32 Mb on CE) while uncompressed.

Please make sure _uncompressed_ size is not too big.

Also please make sure you're disposing of all bitmaps after use before
loading new images.

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Best regards,

Ilya

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"Tomppa" <tomppa@g-m-a-i-l.com> wrote in message
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>I have an ICOP board that has 128 onboard RAM.
>
> When I call bmp = new Bitmap(FilePath); and the jpg that it is loading is
> over 500K I get an out of Memory error.
>
> I can load this larger jpg using ImageViewer or browing to it with IE
> without errors.
>
> This happens in debug mode and when I create a release build and run the
> exe directly on the device
>
> Why is this happening? Any suggestions on fixing this? I tried
> GC.Collect() before loading the bmp and that did not help.
>