What's the way to add custom images/icons in WinForms application.
I added a folder (right-click project and add new folder) named it then as my images folder and I would like to use this folder as my main images folder.
I don't see any option to use my 'images' folder in Visual Studio after dropping the Picture Box control.
Add the image as an embedded resource. You can the set the PictureBox's Image property to the resource via the property editor or at runtime by accessing the Properties.Resources object. The images will be compiled directly into your executable, you just need to add them to your project.
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I've built a user control for my Xamarin Forms projects, starting with a Xamarin.Forms Class Library. The user control contains an image file that I've added to the Class Library project in an "Assets" directory. Within the user control code's XAML I'm simply referencing the image as...
<Image Source="Assets/ImageFile.png"/>
I'm thinking there's no need for platform-specific code here since the image file is local to the Class Library project and compiled into it.
When I reference the DLL in a Xamarin Forms project, everything works as expected...EXCEPT, there's no image. It's as if the Class Library can't see it.
I've played around with the path, but the result is always the same: no image.
However, if I drop the image file into the Xamarin Forms project (i.e., into the Assets directory in UWP), the image appears just fine -- even though I'm still referencing the Class Library through the DLL.
What am I missing? Surely I can embed the image within the DLL, yes?
To make sure the image is included within your DLL:
You need to set the Build Action: EmbeddedResource.
To embed an image in a project, right-click to add new items and select the image/s you wish to add. By default the image will have Build Action: None; this needs to be set to Build Action: EmbeddedResource.
If you need to know where to set this:
The Build Action can be viewed and changed in the Properties window for a file.
You can read more here.
I have created a android project in Visual Studio.I have a few images in the the Drawable folder. These images show in the Resource designer as well. But when I try to access these images the Project Resource explorer does not show them. Also if I try to use them programatically they don't show up.
What is wrong?
to get resource from drawable folder use this line
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.your_resource_item);
Make sure that the "Build Action" on the specific file is "AndroidResource".
Find the resource file in the file explorer, right-click on it, and select the "Build Action" menu item.
It is all very well to have the file in the right file directory location in the operating system, but the Android compiler needs to know what to do with it as well.
I'm having problem loading images to my project.
I have the image in a folder named microassig this folder is on my desktop, this folder is to be sent online to my tutor, thats my line of code:
private Image imageOpen = Image.FromFile("\microassig\openOff.bmp");
I don't want to put the directory c:/ because is directory will be different from mine hence why i'm just using the ("\microassig\openOff.bmp");
The problem is that the image doesn't load.
Locate your project's
bin\debug folder
You can do this by right-clicking on your project solution and clicking Open in Windows Explorer.
Store/Save the file as
openOff.bmp
Then you can just do:
private Image imageOpen = Image.FromFile("openOff.bmp");
You should not be using the Image.FromFile. You need to add the image as a resource into the project. See this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7k989cfy(v=vs.80).aspx
The \ doesn't imply your desktop. You should use GetFolderPath for that (See C# Get Special Folder)
There are a few ways to go about this. You could add your image as a resource.
Or, more in the line of what you are already doing you could change your code to something like this:
private Image imageOpen = Image.FromFile("openOff.bmp");
Then move the openOff.bmp to your bin folder (where the exe is saved).
While you keep the openOff.bmp in the same folder as your executable it should find it.
I am using VS 2005 for a windows application.
There have been code added in the UI form in past such that the form does not open in designer anymore.
I now have to add an icon in an System.Windows.Forms.ImageList.
Right now it simply adds images from the resource file in the InitilizedComponent() in the following way which I believe was originally generated by the designer.
this.MyimageListToolbar.ImageStream = ((System.Windows.Forms.ImageListStreamer)(resources.GetObject("MyimageListToolbar.ImageStream")));
In order to add my new icon I can simply say
Icon myIcon = new Icon(#"mypath/myicon.ico");
this.imgLstToolbar.Images.Add(myIcon);
but the problem then is that I would have to include this ico file in the setup project so it gets copied when this sofware is installed. This is not desirable. All other images added on the imagelist tool bar are not copied when the application is installed.
Is there a way I can programatically add the icon or add the icon without using the designer and still have it included in the resource file so I dont have to copy the ico file in order to run the exe.
Thanks,
You can add the icon to the "resource file" like so..
Right click on the folder "Resources" -> "Add" -> "Existing item..."
I am using visual studio 2005, (.net version is 2.0+) to create a windows application. The functionality of the project is matching with the ideal design, there is just one problem in publishing the project.
I use MouseHover method to change the picture(image) used in intention to make attractive UI, when I hover the mouse pointer over the picture .. some other pic is loaded in-place of it .. and in mouseleave method the same picture is retained back.
Now the problem is while debugging this functionality works properly,
But when published, and used, the window won't load the image (as the installed folder doesn't contain these images) .. How to bind the supporting files like images, text files and any other files like xml with EXE??
I mean is there any ideal way to publish the project??
In your project, ensure that the images are set to Copy Always or Copy if Newer on the Copy To Output Folder property (F4).
That should ensure that when doing an XCopy deploy the images will be in the right folder (you will proabably need to change the logic for finding the image paths, so the application finds them in the right directory).
If you are using deployment project that will generate .MSI for your application, just right click on the project, click add files and then pick the images from your project directory.
Those files will be (by default) be deployed into the application target directory, and your end-user app will be able to access it.
You can package them as Embedded Resources.
To embed them, make sure that when the resources are selected in the Solution Explorer that the 'Build Action' in the Properties window is set to 'Embedded Resource'.
Here is an example with sample project on how to embed images : How to use embedded resources in .Net