Error When Adding an .ico file to the "Image" Property of a PictureBox Control

[T-Man]

Hello All,

I am trying to load an icon file (.ico) into a PictureBox control using C#
..Net.

This type of file worked fine under VB6.

According to .Net documentation, it should work fine here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n/html/vbconDisplayingPictureAtDesignTime.asp

I currently receive an error message saying:

"Invalid parameter used."

Does anyone have any ideas?

Best Regards,

TC

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am trying to load an icon file (.ico) into a PictureBox control using C#
.Net.

This type of file worked fine under VB6.

According to .Net documentation, it should work fine here:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n/html/vbconDisplayingPictureAtDesignTime.asp

I currently receive an error message saying:

"Invalid parameter used."

Does anyone have any ideas?

Does assigning other icons work? Maybe the icon file is corrupted and thus
cannot be loaded.

 

[T-Man]

Hey Herfried,

Nope. The file inserts fine into VB6.

Just can't get it to work in .Net.

Regards,

T-Man

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Nope. The file inserts fine into VB6.

Just can't get it to work in .Net.

Maybe VB6 is more tolerant. Nevertheless, I'd try to assign another icon
file in order to be able to make sure that it's not a problem of your .NET
installation.

 

[T-Man]

Hey Herfried,

Interesting.

I just placed an icon from the VS6 Common files without incident. Whewwww!

At least we know it is not my .Net installation.

Must be something's wrong with the .ico file. For some reason VB6 accepts
it but .Net does not.

Perhaps I should just have the graphics designer rebuild it and make sure
that it loads properly in .Net.

That is, unless, you have some other workaround? ;-)

Thanks for the assistance.

Regards,

Todd

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I just placed an icon from the VS6 Common files without incident.
Whewwww!

At least we know it is not my .Net installation.

Must be something's wrong with the .ico file. For some reason VB6 accepts
it but .Net does not.

Perhaps I should just have the graphics designer rebuild it and make sure
that it loads properly in .Net.

That is, unless, you have some other workaround? ;-)

The way you are describing is the way I would have suggested. I am curoius
if that fixes your problem.

 

[Guest]

I experienced the exact same problem and error message.
Although in my case I was using the ResEditor tool to edit
an image resource file (.resx), anyhow,

Use the built-in VS.NET icon editor to either re-create the icon from
scratch,

-or-

simply open the existing icon direclty in VS.NET by doing:
Add Existing Item->(pick your .ico file)
Open the icon and make some trivial change then save it.

Can't remember which one of those I did, sorry,
but i did see that same error, and using the Icon Editing
tool in VS.NET was part of the solution.