Load Image Without Locking File

[Scott Meddows]

I want to load a multipage TIFF image into memory as an Image object but I read that the FromFile method locks the file.

Can I load this into a stream, close the physical file then manipulate the image there?
Thanks

Scott

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Open the image with image.fromstream.


Dim fs As New System.IO.FileStream("C:\camera.bmp", IO.FileMode.Open)

Dim img As Image = Image.FromStream(fs)

fs.Close()

PictureBox1.Image = img



Ken

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I want to load a multipage TIFF image into memory as an Image object but I
read that the FromFile method locks the file.

Can I load this into a stream, close the physical file then manipulate the
image there?
Thanks

Scott

 

[Scott Meddows]

But this is in the MSDN documentation.

Remarks
You must keep the stream open for the lifetime of the Image object.