C# Photo Viewer with Windows Forms

In this blog I will show you how to create a simple picture viewer in C#.

A I said,in this article we will create a picture viewer in C#.Let's start by creating a new Windows Forms Aplication Project and add a button,an openfile dialog and a picturebox to our form.



Now,it should look like this,but you can design it however you want.

The first part is finished,so let's start writing the code.

In my case

opnbutton = openbutton
pictureBox1 = the picturebox
openFileDialog1 = the openfile dialog

This is the code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
namespace BeHe_Picture_Viewer
{
    public partial class Form1: Form
    {
        public string path;
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        private void opnbutton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            openFileDialog1.ShowDialog(); //Shows the dialog
            if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
            {
                try
                {

                    pictureBox1.Load(openFileDialog1.FileName); //Loads the selected file
                }
                catch
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Error opening file"); //Sets the erorr
                }
                path = Path.GetDirectoryName(openFileDialog1.FileName); //Gets the current path
                this.Text = "BeHe Picture Viewer - " + path;
            }
        }
    }
}

Remember,this is for beginners.I created something similar that can open pictures from the same folder(next and prev button),using System.IO,but this could be a liitle hard at the beginning.

Thanks you guys.

Enjoy.