Open Image from file, then release lock?

Eagle-Eye picture Eagle-Eye · Jul 4, 2011 · Viewed 58.8k times · Source

I'm using the following line of code to open an Image from a file:

pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("test.png");

I expect it to lock the file, load the image to memory, set pictureBox1.Image to the copy in memory, and release the lock. In reality, the lock won't go away until I Dispose() of the Image in memory. I can not release the lock on the file on the harddrive that I am no longer using until I get rid of the file in memory that I am using.
Microsoft's site mentions it in a C#-labeled article, but their solution is written in visual basic, which is useless to me.

In summary: I want to set pictureBox1.Image to the image stored in "test.png", then let the user edit or delete "test.png" or whatever.

Answer

net_prog picture net_prog · Jan 2, 2012

The approach with stream is not correct.

See here https://stackoverflow.com/a/8701748/355264

Correct code from above link:

Image img;
using (var bmpTemp = new Bitmap("image_file_path"))
{
    img = new Bitmap(bmpTemp);
}