Retrieve File Path Of An Image In A PictureBox

[CSpannos]

Hello,

After an image has been placed in a PictureBox, I am trying to make it so that when you click on the PictureBox, the image will pop up in the Windows Picture Viewer.

Private Sub PictureBoxPreviewImagePreview_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PictureBoxPreviewImagePreview.Click
        Dim filepath As String
        'filepath = PictureBoxPreviewImagePreview.Image
        Try
            Call Shell("rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen" & filepath, AppWinStyle.Hide)
        Catch ex As System.Exception  'watch for exception
            MsgBox("Cannot open the specified file.", MsgBoxStyle.OKOnly, "Preview Error")
        End Try
    End Sub

How do I retrieve the path and filename of the Image currently in the PictureBox?

Thanks!
Kosta

 

[SHelton]

Why not stick the filepath into the Tag property of the PictureBox control when the Image is assigned ?

You can then retrieve it at any time:

filepath = PictureBoxPreviewImagePreview.Tag.ToString

 

[RiverGuy]

I agree with SHelton. If you add the picture in the designer, it will be compiled into your program. So I don't know what good the path would do you. If you are loading the image from a file in code, then you can even make a string and assign the path to the string when you assign it to the picture's image property, and just used the variable.