Background Image does not expand ?

You can override the Paint event of your form, and draw a scaled version of the image. I believe there is an overload of the constructor for Bitmap that takes another bitmap, and a new size, and scales it appropriately. So it should go something like this: Graphics o = new Graphics(myform);//Create graphics object so we can draw on the form. Bitmap i = new Bitmap(myoldpicture,newwidth,newheight);//Scale the bitmap to the form's size. o.DrawImage(i);//Add extra arguments to function here; I forgot what they were. i.Dispose();//Dispose of the bitmap object. o.Dispose();//Dispose of the graphics object. You said you were using VB.NET, but since my code was more psuedo-code than useable and thus you wouldn't use it directly, I'm sure you understand.

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mike2993622y ago
You can override the Paint event of your form, and draw a scaled version of the image. I believe there is an overload of the constructor for Bitmap that takes another bitmap, and a new size, and scales it appropriately. So it should go something like this: Graphics o = new Graphics(myform);//Create graphics object so we can draw on the form. Bitmap i = new Bitmap(myoldpicture,newwidth,newheight);//Scale the bitmap to the form's size. o.DrawImage(i);//Add extra arguments to function here; I forgot what they were. i.Dispose();//Dispose of the bitmap object. o.Dispose();//Dispose of the graphics object. You said you were using VB.NET, but since my code was more psuedo-code than useable and thus you wouldn't use it directly, I'm sure you understand.