Upload/Display Image In Picture Box Using C#

Introduction

Browsing and displaying an image in picture box tool using  Windows Forms application is a very simple task. In this application, we use the following classes/controls to do the b.

• OpenFileDialog 
• PictureBox
• TextBox
• Button 

Main Functions

This functions simply perform the following steps,

1. Open a file dialog box so that a user can select an image from his/her machine
2. Browse the image 
3. Display selected image in a picture box on a Form 
4. Display image file path in text box 

Here is the code,

// open file dialog
OpenFileDialog open = new OpenFileDialog();
// image filters
open.Filter = "Image Files(*.jpg; *.jpeg; *.gif; *.bmp)|*.jpg; *.jpeg; *.gif; *.bmp";
if (open.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {
    // display image in picture box
    pictureBox1.Image = new Bitmap(open.FileName);
    // image file path
    textBox1.Text = open.FileName;
}

What is an image filter?

Image filter is basically a filter that restrict user to select only valid image file. You can remove image filter.